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stated above occurred, is entirely preposterous. cover the entire loss in this « is & list of the sufforers:— = nS AVI STREET. F Co., grocery #0r®.. .. ‘Kanes’ weiss cdo, dour dealers, Horticultural store Poindexter & Co, Ma 1. Mateer... . Hubbard & Co , stove G. ©, Fountal be J. P. Davis & Co , groe-re Weaver & Rebinsop, Gulden Hall & Gardner, owners of Patios L. Gaven.... John Thebault, bar FRONT Joha 0. Ayres, brass foundry... JSOKSON STREET. H.C. Bille boller maker... [lo OREGON BTREET. Deeby & Keith, brass foundry... Cuptain Forman, two buildings . WashinGiun ©. Hopkins, several buildiass. Mr. Theobald, hair dresser, G "The following were ales sofferers, but the amounts ot thett sevens! losses have wot bech ascertained: Davis etxest.—C. 8. Biebop, flour inspector’ office; Nye & Ames, lightermen; Belmont House; -O' Connor, liquor store; De vitp & Warrington, gro cery store; Mexican beardiog house; restauract; boarding bc use, up stoirs. Mis Kaight; Capt. Mid- d'ctou, office; clothing etore; boot store; fruit store; Meyjerfeldt, segar store; David McKay, grovery stores Kein & Buttis, bisckemiths and boiler makers. Front sraert—aA. J. Dowver, grocery store; ‘Prentiss & Devoe, machinists; King & Barrell, flour ccalera, Jackson sTrext.—J. Hickey & Co., grocery store; Wintbro, House; Tara’s Old Hall, boaraing hous; Rising State, boarding house; Robinson's ing hou rock House; Strowbridge & e, clothing : Haus Miller, boarding house; a Neveda, boarding house; Jackson Honse, | boarding house. OXEGON stTreEt.— Irving Hone. WASHINGTON stuBeT —Wm. Stringer, coal yard. lwmedtately after the bresking ont of the firs, Mc Weaver, one of the proprictors of the Golden Gate He tel, rusted up >tairs and did all in bis power te awabew the sleeping inmatea Several, as soon | as they had become aware of their danger, jumped from the windows aud escaped with slight bruises and fractures, ive of Mr. Weaver hod one of his arms the Geiden Gate Hotel. teman named Guncisoa jumped from tho a boarding he ON street, and ke ove of bis legs. The boading aouse was kept vy Mra. Knight, va. Guanison, the wife of the ‘above pamed gen- 1, While emoeavoring to make her escape front ene of the co flagration, felt through the poking on Wa-bingt a street,a distance of ten to fourteen feet, into the mud, and was badly in- jured. 3 A fireman nawed Jobn Cooney, attached to Paci- / fic Hegioe Company No, 8. fell through a portiea of the burned wharf on Oregon street, and was some- what injured. He afterwards received a hurt while | working @¢ the engine. Another fireman, whore name was ascertained te | be John Poiner, whea the coaflagration was at its | height, was engaged holding a hase pipe on a build- | tug oa Jackson steeet, near Davis, The heat be- came so overpowering that he dropped down in- | sensible. Had it net beew for the humane exertions | of Mr. Geo. Hossefross, be woukd have lost his life. | He was attached to the Monumentals. The safe of the Golten Gate was broken open by | some dai ro epee in tho confusion which prevailed , r fisme could not agree, eight being for acquittal cae ‘The case was to bave been tried anew this ing. The District Avarney, hovares, aat Se Conrt that from the sddii evidence ocme to his kpowledge, !e had become that the prisoner was really 5 keepisg te w er 8 prosequi ee see Of the evidence that has bea obtained since be FEE REE < ; : hi Fy ju valuable stocks of goods, and consequently the mile, making 16,000 square oF occupants are very heavy losers. On I street very 10,240,000 acres of land. Under the act of rf be the model sbaft of California. waay Mandusuie. Gad vehi Geulinar ene ent gislature of Texas making this whic passed be Extenucs between two and three eomed, which were an ornament to the city. On | and became a law is December ‘@ belt of coun | When finished, will affors 3 this etreet, between Fifth and Sixth, nearly alt of extending from the eastern limita of Texas t> | richness avd ¢xteot of the Grass the Chinamen were located, and not one of the r the ite , the western of the State, | If successful, it will tell for this | mente caged el tee Soi, te |S8d Sh ahe anata cred etapa | "Flat Soee HL, we Ee ea eae od ann Hoventhy this entirely | ther locations, either by heed slalite or otherwise, | some the water as ese»ped the great ‘ouflagration of 1852. On the | untilthe company Duilalag the railroad shall have | continue the wonderfu! stories south side ot I, between Third and Seventh, there | made their ‘ions, ano if lands enough are not | The Star Mining ces were bat three or four frames spared. fonnd within thie district then the comp bundred and twent, feet, and are still in The burnt district is comprised witbin the follew- | locate elsewhere on any of the public domain of the | bed rock. All agree, however, in saying that it is the idee ea any Ent Tomo tat | aspen Sl re eagaplet then smecaoe sot ia pour dares ere are maby be by ings left stending—K strect, north side, from above | Ga ene errs Ao oyyttectiong Inthe least discouraged. We cannot hewever, be led Third to Seventh; | atreet, from above Third to | fine for grazing, abd upon the atreams and brauches | % credit the Nevada it states that Bove nth, both Mess Bours ag pe sont er | poet for cultivation. At $6 ap acre, which is not a fa eget nS to Sram Veter. Be ind Seventh streets, av al . ween fides; ani both sides of J street, from Third t0 | gutter forthe sight Nueaea cottes eee Te | slut the market ‘| Seventh. The wooden buildings on some twelve | would give%$51,200,000. This sum will more than | . Forest City is florishing as usual, and we hear blocks are mostly covsumed. inc nie all the small | puild the line th: ‘Texas. that the Fourth ly, and the miners houses which stood on the alleys; and it is estimated | ‘We learn further, that frem El Paso {t ia contem- | eenerally are doivg well. 4 lump was taken out Wat about 200 have been burnt. Most of these | plated that the road be continued through a dy last_week, weighing over forty oun es. houses were small, apd many of them but little bet- | portion of Cuibushus and Sonora,with the ultimate | Above Little York, on Bear river, we understand ter than shells. The largest bulidings were the | expectation ot terminating upon the Pacific coast, | the water is gi , any of the Seid nae este tie,amoe; | yaaset camera cmmpaaiatn es | HSC Bock Dore trib the foving ew En louse, the louse, Mr. "9 life church, the Suwanee House, and the Crescent City ae ae frm Op ru — wie hear of no heary lous ot goods destroyed. The "tania wml tilde Hook ie kets Coos | gic lareiy. "fhe ol chee of Hopkion Meek a Louis in jaa. Capt. '. - ‘inp ngs, not Pope, of the to; left El Paso ‘ns ont five ounces daily. large devlers are all in. the fire proof buil ot th | Le antite sane This lead has one of which are destroyed. The loss, including in March last, at the same point om the Rio Grande | been struck in « hill-side, one mile above the Flat, baildings ae eee is estimated to be between | at which Colonel Gray took his and he is | opposite Half-way House. It was opened re- $300,000 and $400,000. : | examining a route through to Preston, on Red Ri- | cently, and yields from three to ten ounces duily. ‘sae Wilson G. Hunt arrived at 11 o'clock, P. M., | ver. All these points, it is supposed, will connect | Two yeara ago, Campbe:!’s Flat was in a very bad ging the San Francisco firemen to the rescue. | with the main trunk im Texas. odor ‘with the miners, Lebor at that time was Although too late to be of service, they met with a | We learn that the people of Sonora and Chihus- | chiefly confined to the ravines running intoit, which | glocious reception from our firemen. | hus are most anxious for the railroad, and will were never vi for richness. Bat re- i Destsuctive Fire at Columbia. | anything in their power toed aud aesis’, ita com- fr saber ye Seay tee opie tenia the BALF A MILLION DOLLAKS WORTH OF PROPERTY | bill ed Bi Bs ‘titer Onn faire deepatch from Columbia, dated July 10, an: | mineat and ifiventia! moe iy Culltalnns ar Vice | thle dlatrict with wate. se D bia, , ams | was Vice A | nceaen that Beis bicihe ont; aban two o'clock on | Presideut of a large ratlmad on tae A Liege teary te ine week ‘an Bs ye See ae eee ear Cutt | Alnulf'm every wey copeuse ee soak ts tarball | \ompsay fom tity, who tock out, te A dey | Hote! result an jeatruction of 0 ’ ; the town. All the property bounded by Broadway, | through Chihushua in the vicinity of the town of Ee. Witee Have “tasrlicna | Futon, State and Washington streets, is eatire Ma FE) Paso. Every kindness and was shown | oe into ‘Kincala’s Sonpen Gale | | consuroed, except a Had od building of Donald Parcoua. The mafs and papers of the post office | and the books apd treasure of the bankirg houses of | } James Mitls & Co., Wells, Fargo & Co., and of | | Adams & Co., were saved. The Odd Fellows’ Hall | and the two Methodist charches were also saved. | | The buildings occnpied by the printing office of the | Gazette and Chpper were destro) ed, but the materi: | als principally saved, the oress of the Gazette being | very seriously injured. The loss is estimated, we | ste informed, at $500.000, The fire is supposed to | he the work of an incendiary, and a man named Babe was arrestec on suspicion of being tha culprit. He had been Leard a few mniautes before to threaten to burn the town, Further parti ulars from an “ extra” of the Clip- per and Gozette, dated 4 P. ML 2 Gn Main street—N. Brown & Co. loas $15,000 ; Dor ald & Parsons, $2,000 ; Ja kson & Ssone, $1 000; Mr. Pierson, Y. N. Saugeant, $4,000 ; R. Evans & ©o., McLean ns, $2,000 5 Jsake Shotwell, #3 ; Hayes Stickuey, $1,200 : | Btoneall, $2 5 ries Bassett, 2,400 ; Chases J. Brown, $8 evs, $1,200; A. J. Hollister, $5500 ; Jenn: rant, $800 ; P. G. Fe-gu- gon, $¢,000; Fran Jo., $200 ; Se Levi, $2,000 ; Bathhense, $1,600 ; Vritz & Co., $3,500; Sharpwell, $1,500 ; Joa, Whitman, Columbus Saloon, $4,000 ; Knapp & Co., $5,000; A. Hacksmith, $2,000; Leary, $2,500 ; der, $3,000 ; Chavin, Boston Livery rs » $2,500; N. ¥. Bakery, | ; amen, $300; A.Denovte, $800; Morgan, | $1,000; Hickey,$300; A.Smiti, $1,000; Dupont,$500; | . Alemst-in, $5,000; Segar store, zt Teebels, $1,000; Mrs. Levi, $5,000; N. Levy, | $500; T. 8. Ackerman, $2,500 ; Bresnau, $1,000 ; U. 5. Bukery, $2,000 ; Madame Simondi, i $3,000; H. K. White, $5,000; Sotler & Marshal, | $6,000; Jas. Mills & Co., $4,000; Weile, Fargo & Co., | $4,000; Wm. G. Vannereall, $5,000; A. Farasworth, | $7,000; R. I, Towle, $1,000: Dearborn, Robbins & | Co.,, $2,000; L. G. Witrow, $500; M. Michael, $500: A. A. Cormos, #500; 'T. N. Caznean’s Exchange, { Theatre, and other buildings, $26 900; McKenny &, | Co., $9,000; C. Cardnette, $7,000; Bark & Maton, $2.500; H. 3. Miller, $2,800; Clark's Hotel and furniture, $10,000; O. Fore, 5 Col. Gray and his part; the Mexicans. | Yom the Rio ‘ante bol Gray pursued a due 4 west course, striking the river and valley of the Rio San Migtel (sometimes called Rio Santa Maris), whi'b empties toto Lake Guzman. The Jatter is a ealt luke, or a body of water so strongly impregnated with saline matter as to ba unfit for use. Upon its b rders und on the Rio San Miguel some fine land occurs, and fine springs of fresh water. The fine va ley of the San Miguel, to the northward of Lake Guzman, ie included within the limite of the Gads- den treaty; algo the fine timbered region in the neighberhood of Tabac and the valley of Santa Cruz. Several new passes vero found through the of roountaivs between the Rio San Pedro and the | Rio Grande, and over one hundred miles cut off in | distance from the emigrant road from Fi Paso to | Colifornia, Many picturesque ruins, the work of the Apsche Indians, were.seen, and maguificent ranches entirely Ceserted. On the 23d April Col. Gray and his paity rearbed the ranch of Calabazas, be'ongiog | to Govervor Gandura, of 8 nora, and advised the Mexicans of the approach of a lerze body of Indians, | fallen in with the day before. An hour after Col. | Gray arrived an attack was made upoa the raach by one bundred and forty Coyotero and Pinal Liano Apaches. Captain’ Garcia, wita sixty | Mexican lancers, hap:ened fortunately to be at the ranch that day, and being prepared, met and de- feated the Incians, killing fifteen, including one of the head chiefa, This wns the first instance in | which the Apaches have met with a signal defeat | from the Mexicans in the Santa Cruz valley. | From Tubac, Colonel Gray pooceeded to the ranch | of Boozani, in latitude 31 deg. 8 min., and despat hed | a portion of his party in a northwest course to the | Gila, and proceeded himself southwest and west | peta 0 ee of penis, thus runni: Kea | separate lines through the unknown region | the northwestern part of Sonora, and eating to the northward of the parallel of 31 deg. | Tbe explorations and reconnoissances of Colonel | ora mace in connection with the Atlantic aud | Pacitic Railroad Company, through Texas, Chibua- | * ; | hua apd Sonera, and his previous survey of the | Seapine por | Gila and that region, ag the chief surveyor of the | | Mexican boundary line, has given him an opporta- | at the breaking out of the fire, and $2,000 abstract- | $3,500; J. Havrison, $2.500; T. Higgins, $2, eee toeeaeg ae seees eetonie na Wem, Comiee mere)| ed. 4 7 . S. Troe, $800; A. Tower, $8,000; Niles Sites 98/000; | Chibuahua than any one—and will enable him to | 4 gentleman named Samuel Flinn, jumped feom | Christine, $7,000; Stage Company's stable, $2,000; | Present a deeply interesting and valuable report, | 4 third story window ln the G siden Gave Hotel, with | Mr. corner of Fulten street and Broadway, | Particuiarly.at this point of time, when se much & puree containing $700, and broke one of his logs. $2,000; Ficher’s drag store, $3,000; Andre, $5,000; | Curiosity ia felt for that section of country. He also fost iis purse. He was conveyed in a car- | Fuller, $1.500; Drs. Graves & Guebel, $2,000; brain: | Extent of th Regions. rine to the bos ital. | ard, $15,000; Dupont Bakery, $500; Cleveland, $400; | (From the Sacraments Unon, Jey TU) Two Roglichmen, or, in other words, two men | Columbia Brewery, $2,500. — "i Not long since, a New York a Y ster moti i syeaking the Knulish lancusge, curing the raging of | _ On Wasbington street—Wm. Odenheimer, $4,500; | the fact that the wmount of gold dust stipped month. | the dre pu-lomed a box said to coatain seven thou- | Boston Bakery, $10,000; B. Northrop, $1,200; Ga- | 1/SEe ‘tien of se compared wich previea months, | sand collars in specie. They deposited it with a | rete office, $2,000; Cclumbta House, $1,000; J. | Y.2e rene mines of Calitoritle were being exhaust. | Mr sican wowan for safe keepiug, Dut two Mexiean | Cysley, $200; Sum Ang, 600; other Chinese tene- | ohet)) tye mipes o1 Del tortie wee bale extant: | es-peradoes haviog got wiud of Ye aMule, probably | rents, $900; 0. P. Davis, $4,000; Qatlew & Camo- | Cory gutatctoniy snawored Chet quand Te Was through the woman, came to her house, and seiz’ | 2 500; M. Rassett, $5,006; arant de Paris, the tox, made off with it. One of thom, named | $2,500;" Belle Union, $5,000; Chinaman, $1,000; | Jet? Nell known atthe time that the falling off ia Marina Maivas, was subeeqaentls arrested by the police, but no clwe to the treasure has as yet been dis- | acvered, | A portion of the planking on Oregon street gave | way just before the fire swept over that street, whea | several persons were precipitated into the mud be- | neath, Nove were, however, seriously iajured, } A. J. Downer & Co., reported ag losing heavily, everything, and suffered ne loss except the expense of removing their goods. it was rumored that a woman with her child was | borned to death in the Golden Gate Hotel. | Tremeedous Conflngration at Sacramento, | ON@THIRD OF THE BUSINESS PORTION OF DHE CITY TN KUINS— LOSS $350,000. {From the Sacramento Unton, July 14.] | Aboot one o'clock this afterneon a fire broke out in this city, which, in extent and destructiveness, bas only been surpasse+ by the terrible conflagra- t.on of November 2, 1852. There wero, fortunately, turee favorable causes pie vailing tending to prevent tbe spread of the flumes, viz., little wind, fireproof buildings, and an sbnovance of water, nequestionably, was the means of saving the better portion of the city. The fire ignited in a small rame building in the centre of toe block bounded by 34, J, 4th and K streets, It is said that the fire was caused by the upsetting of a spirt-lamp under a pot of glue, in the rear of Newcomb’a furniture warehouse. Other rumors of various kinds are also in circulation, but we believe tie above to be cor- * rect. Owing to the combustible nature of the material, the fire immediately communicated to | the kitchen of the Sacramento H tol, which faces | ou K street. Although ths batding ignited in fifteen minutes after the alarm was given, Sacra mento No. 5 engine and Macual Hook ond Ladder No. 1 were at work maufully inthe ceutre of this block, and by their efforta the fire was prevented from croasing Third street. Simultaneously with the bresbing out of the fire in the rear of Sacra- mento Hotel, avd the ignition of the frame buildings of Boyd & Davia, on the alley betweea Third and Fourth streets, avd ineantly thereafter, the Cres- cent City Hote! caught, and from this point the flames, fanned by the southern breezes, rapidly swept up J and across to I street. On K sereet were stationed engines 1,4 and Co. No, 2; by their alaest superhuman efforts the fire was prevented from crossing K street. There is nota sinule building burnt on the south eide of K street, or west of Fitt» street. Fortunately, there was a full supply of water for the use of t! Departinent in this densely crowded street, ayd % their macy exertions, cou led with thore of o <itizens, aro we indebted fer tbe safety of aa im- mense amount of p:operty. which would otherwise Lave fulien a prey t» the devastating element. But fear br ick bmidings have been destroyed, aud these would bave been saved had they been prote: ted by boo shutters. Afver the five had crossed J street, and forced ita way (oJ slreet, the wind increased very matenaily tiosiog from the southwest—which blew the the latter street, oping every thing be- np #6 faras tho Court House, which, we 2) eb TO “Oy, Waa totally consumed. however, the fire ran down Fifth and t d barned the old Congre- ich 80 nobly withstood mber fire. Evecy precaution e the building, and the cause ition is very my steriogs, a3 the flames were a ig first sees bursting from ¢ © interior. It is supposed by many that some tend set it on fire in the contusion tat pre esiles, tor the purpose of extending the ra- vages of tLe coufagmtion. Ali the legal docomenta and papers ia the Court It-ase were reseed and carried to secure places. With the exception of the Congregational Cuurch, pone of the houses of religious worship were des- troyed. Neo. 4 Kegine House, and two brick buildings on Filth etreet, beween J and K, were barned in the carly pact of the tire; also, an adjoining brick build- ing, They wero not cousidered tire proof, We ave happy to record no positive lose of life, | alibough tt is carrently immorod that a man at work on the roof of the Soo xregational Chareh was sm oe into the flames when the building fell in, Mr. Apderson, of the firm of An- i Honter & Co., received a deep gush leg while at work. Mr. Louman, of the house of Hull & Lohman, was prostrated bya coup de soleil, but ia re overing, . B. Hant, Aa pisteant of No. 1, bad bis arm broken, end Mr, i, ® member of the same company, way 4y Mr. W. H. Allen, « volunteer member -of No. 1, was also injured by fire. A man was discovered setting fire to Garwood's huildtog on J street, betwee and Sixth, but the villaim managed to escape. ” ‘evidence of the indomitable energy of the Satmamentans, wo will state tust at 6 o'c in the Graft had hia lumber on the site of eae Fifth street, between J in erecting it. Al- efalsngs dts ye conflagration were of the latter, | 2, Hook and Ladder | 500; Bartlert & eominlesk bh bea % Treotypists, $500; M. | ; Woodward, 00, | rench, $800; Frenca ing +tore, $2, eze houses, G. Cartwright, $7 Ou Jackson street—N. store, $4,000. On Folton street—Agvessor’s office, $200; seddler | shop, $200; Wardell, $500; Brainard & Newell, | $5,000; bath house, $560; office, $10,000; Clipper, #1000; stable, # ‘There was an additional loss by tearing down | bnilcings to stay the progre-s of the fire, say $2,- | 500. ee of the busimess men have cleared off | the rubbish from their lots, and are doing business again under temporary shelter. otal Destruction of Minnesota by Fire. | A telegraphic despatch from Marysville to the Evening News, states that on Friday morning, at 3 o'clock, a fire broke out in the bakery of Mares & , Co. In twenty-five minutes the whole town was laid ip ashes, with the excetion of three houses— | the Spring House, Minnesota House, and Hall & Co.'s store. No person was badiy injured. ‘The | express office of Langton & Bros. was burned; the Papers and books in treir safe were secured, but the beat was so intense as to melt the gold dust in the office. They have lost but their builoing and | some valuable jewelry. The total damage by fire is estimated st $52,000. ‘The following are the names of a few of the sufferers by the fre:—D. | ' Hamilton, Mares & Co., Goodwin & Co., E. 5. Miles, Hail & Co., livery stable and butcher shop, | Spanish saloon, Prince & Co.'s saloon, Julius Gutte’s | store, Langton & Bro.’s exprese office, Flei¢kbeck- | er'y Eupire Houee, Ferguson & Co, } Survey of the Southern Ronte for the Atlan- | tre and Pueific Ratlroad, t | (From the San Francisco Tines aud Transertpt, July 15.) Col. Gray, who leaves for Wasbingtoo this after- noon, takes with him the notes of the survey which | has just. beem accomplished updet his command, | | and by direction of the Pacific Railroai Company, | organized laet year under an act of incorporation | | from the State of New Yok. Since his arrival in | this city be and bis corps of aasistants have been | | laboriously cecupied ip the ecm of the field | notes and sketoses made on the routes traversed by the divisions ef Col. Gray’s party, and the work | , Tequised the most seduloas attention. We have | | seen a large portion of the drawings made on the | joureey, which, with the des:riptions of the region | | traversed, its production® and resources, will fur- nish a very valuable addition to the knowicdgs of a | country enlisting at this period the especial inter | eat of the scientific as well as of the general public. | Frem a conversation with Col. Gray we obtain the | acount of the route surveyed by him, and some other incidental particulars, which we are happy to lay before our readers. This expeditivn set out on the lst day of January {| fxm Sen Antonio, for ths purpose of an examina tion as to the practicability of @ railway by a route | from the eastern borcers of the Sate of Texas to EL | Paso, in the vicinity of the parallel of 32 deg., aud | thence westward to the Galf of California, and to | | Sep Diego, or across the Sierra Madre range of | | mountofer. | | Fort Chadbourne was found to be in lat. 52 deg. | 02 min. outtwo anda half miles north of the poralel of 32 deg..) acd some threo hundred miles } east of Paso cet Norte. It is nearly im a direct line | weat of Vickslag, in Mississippi, and is the point | Geo. Rusk and Gen, Orville Clarke left off their ex- | aminations last yoar In their expedition from Red | River and Eastern Texas. The site of thir fort was selected by Gen. Persifor F, omith about two years since, and ia represented | ' to be a dine section cf country, with excellent tim- { ber, stone and water, and asplendid grazing region. Tt is ona branch of the Colorado of Tex.s, about a hondred miles west of Fort Chadbourne, on the head | branches of the Colorado and the commencemeat of | the great staked plain, or Llano Extacado. A line ove west from Fort Caadboarpe was by Cul. Gray, until striking Marcy's trail leading | fom Fort Smith, in Arkansas, to the Horsel crossing of the Pecos, thence to the sand hills aad across the atuked plain, striking the Pecoe river | some forty-five miles above the point where Capt. | Marcy crowed. A good ‘oute was found across from the sand bills, together with an cxcetient fo d on tho Pecos, and the distance for wagons aad trains to Bi Paso lessened some sixty odd miles, From the Pecos a tive nearly on the parallel of 31 cog. 30 min. Dorth latitude to the Meas, esstwardly of the town of Son Flizario,on the Rio Gracde, | passing some twenty-five miles south of the peak of the Guadaloupe mountains, wae deemed most prac | tieable, from the examinations and report of Capt. | | Ankrim, thence along the Mesa northwestwardly to the Molino del Norte to the crossing of the Rio | Grande, two miles above the town of hi Paso. This line lies wholly within the Stace of Texas, | and is the one contemplated under the recent char ter given to the Aclantic and Pacific Tail oad Com. | pen) cf New York, of which Levi 8. Chathent, (late | | Attorney General of New York.) is Presitent, and | | How. R. J. Walkers director, Thelength cf the tine | ‘brough Texas will not fal: shrot of 400 miles, for | . Which the Kate bas donated twenty sections to cach | the gold product was entirely owing to the scarcity | county is reported. y | and other diggings on the Kiamath near the jane | as ee and not to that of gold or of good paying gginge. ‘That surface diggings may become “worked out” in particular locatities, is not denied by intelligent | miners; but we murt remember there are thousand: | of 2c es in the Stute of surface diggings yet un- | touched, which wili pay good wages whenever wa- ter can be obtained to wash the dirt. It is found thar gole is scattered in rich profusion over the thc usand bills whi :h liescat:ered between the Plains | and the base of the Sierra Nevada. For some five | hundred miles in length by from air ypt se | | | miles wide—ia a direction from south to through the State—pay dirt is often foand upon the very tops of these bills, and in some instances for an indefinite depth in a downward direction. Bat the vast majority of there hills cannot be worked for years, because a ‘ong time must clapso before water can be carried wto their vicinity. Within the pact year it hos been ascertained that a grest portion of thee hifls—many of thom little | mountaina—were originally deposited tich leads of placer gold, which are now being discovered | by tunnelling and oc thefts. In many instan- | ces the de; Osis are found as rich os they were in the creeks, ravines and rivers in 1849, This species of mining has just commenced in California, and the «xtert to which these hill de- | porits exist is beyond man’s catimate. With the prerent evicerce before bim the geologist decides that the same clasa of deposits it be foand | throngh the full extent of the miving region; and, | if so, who con presume to estimate the centuries which are yet to rell round before trese gold de- posite in the “: ill diggings” in California will be | exbuvsted’ Years upon years must pass on the wicgs of time, before even the placer digsings will tefuce to yield @ fair return for the tubur of tne miner. Even in the plaina of this county there sre acres upon acres which will pay good wages, when plenty of water can be obtained. In the language of g friend, who fs an experienced miner as wellas Id and the certain evidenves 2 found, may be traced from the plains beck of Sacramento t2 the line of perpetual snow on the Sierra Nevada. But the “eternal” ectrce of gold lies in the im- menee and countless leads of gold hearing quartz rock, wii h extend in a northwest and soutneast di rection the entire length of the cold region in the State. In these, and similar leads decomposed by tho past action of the elements through countlees ages, ve have the great matrix—tho great mother of old. Whatever may bave been the success which #8 attended the labora, expenses and ex:eriments | of quartz miners up to the present timo, enough has been developed to prove many of these leads very ri bh, and that in a few years quartz mining in Cali- fornia will to a tens of millions of capital, and prodace anaually miliions of gold. The extent of theae Jeada precludes tie possibility of forming aa idea as to the time man will require to work them it, witb all the aid of steam and machinery he can bring to bear upon that kind of miniog. ‘Teking all our mining resour es into considera- tiov—and we may reasonably conclade that a cea- tury bence the same question, will the Califvroia mites become exbausiec? wil beasked by those un‘amiliar with the wonderful extent and inexhans- tible sichness of her gold fields aud quartz leads. News from the Mines. A party which went out from Los Angeles, aeve- ral months ago, to prospect the Colorado, has re- turned, after a lengtby aad unsuccessful eearch for gold mines. The discovery of a quicksilver mine in Mariposa ‘The hydraulic ditch of Jones, Turner & Co., at | Coloma, was sold on the 1.t instant, under the sher | iff’s hommer, for $65,000. | A flume ten miles in lepe'h is to be made from | Scott river, to facilitate mining at Hamburg Bar, | tion, where there is a great deal of carth heretofore upworksbie for want of water. A party bas been formed in Ban Diego to prospect the country On the north of the Gila, near the San Frencia o river, where gold has been found in small qventities by travellers. Mixtx@ anovyp Grase Vatiry—Contmerep Socerss oF THE Iowa Hitt Mives—From the Tilegroph, we take the following notice of the rich quartz ond placer mines in that vicinity: — | Around Grass Valley bape fp | been prosper d to an unusi gree during wiek, We bave heard of no company where pros- rity has pot crowned effort. ‘Ke the’ Manhattan: miil, the rock cr uabed in three days yielded nix pounds of closely pressed amalgam. This is in- ceed an poops result. The Heuston Hill, which biasfair to prove one of the on | 200 feet throug solid rock. They have strack t. A rattlesnake was killed last week on Sullivan's Creek, measuring six feet and three inches in comy is organizing in this city for the pur-. of dieglog 8 canal from the Toolamne river to ‘ig Oak Fiat, Garote, &c. On Brown’s Flat, we are pleased to learn, the miners sre reaping a rich reward from their tabora of the winter and spricg. McFadden’s tunvel, in Stockton Hill, bas been cut wash earth this week, and on washing two pans | full, found a yield of $1 50. They have work ahead for seyeral years, and at that rate their claim may be considered avery good one. Murray & Car’s tunnel adjoins the above, and is also pays weH. Tney have but recently entered, | and find earth paying 75 centa to ie pase | Ali the tunnels on the south side of the hill con- | tinue to yield very rich, Tae New Dicaixes ox Kern River—The | Stockton Journal learns that the recently discovered mines upon Kern river are not sufficiently rich to y the aapenses and time occuyied in so distant a journey. e gold is scattered over a large extent of country, ana the greater part of the emigration intend finding their way back to the old cumpin; ground “nearer home,” as soon as the reateblinbet condition of an exhausted treasury will admit of it. | Sovrnunn Minrs—Tbe Colambia Gazette says:— | New diggings have been discoverrd on the top of the bill aout ‘the town, at the head of Union gulch, | which iets finely. A company calling them- gelves the “ Sliders” have just commenced opera- | tions, and have christened the place Rhode Islaad | Dill. |The claim is situated about sixty yarda above | the Tuolumne Compazry’s race; and the company | have erected s platform from the claim toa alide, into which they dump the earth, which they carry thither in barrows, whence it shoots down abeut fifty feet » their sluices below the ditch. The led, rises pearly to the top of the A be pits into the hill We- there are rich diggings on this ridge hill, yet to be discovered, which it would take to work out. The hill, therefore, has not been peoted, except for quartz. Exrraorpisary Yrsud.—We learn from the Ne- vada at, that the Tunnel Com; '» at Forest City, bave ran their new mein truskin about five hundred feet, the lead richer as they advance. Last Friday, one of the hands panned ‘ous from one pan of wel from the bed rock, in sence of several af angers, $128; and the week fore $108 to Se heat apd are taking out weckly lead proving richer as they advance; and, from a'l eee re conclusion ia, that ‘the lead rans rough the hi)! to Smith's Diggings, about one mile south. New diggings have been prospected two myles from Forest City, whish have prove: rich. sud capsed consilerable ¢xcitement to locate claims Ove piece was tuken if the value of $34. Many have commencey eperations. The place has been named New Forest City. From the Inctan Reservation, Tue Kian River Drgaises—Harvast ox rau | RerexvaTion—A letter from Capt. P. E. Connor, | dated at the Tejon Reservation, July 1st, says :— ‘20th June, Our mar. h from the Merced to this place | was rather slow, in consequence of being encum- | bered by s party of would-be miners, of ton, on their way to the new El Dorado on Kera river. { We met several parties returning from the new | diggings, and the universal anewer to our several questions wes, “ Oh, there is gold on Kern river, but not enough to pay me.” I afterwards ascertained, | on arriving at the river, that but-a few of these per- | aons bad done abything, being moetly men of the | stamp that will not work under any cir omstances. Mony of them never stuck a yee in the g-ound, not | even dismounting from their starved, raw-boned Cent ‘an rN lowever, reports as circulated were highly colored. There are about twenty-five men working on the river at precent, who intend to con- tinue wor two and thee cent dirt until the river | falis, when %, expect to find richer deposits. Three centa to t] ae. is the most that has beea found aa yet, and is only one party working dirt that Hich—the others only two cant dirt. The tiver is very Ligh, and per ot to do vend at > enable LY when tbe water subsides to reach the bed rock. J think, however, that the will be disappointed in the water falling low ea’ for jbeir purposes, as Kern sive ig known to remain high se any tributary of San Joaquin. Its south fork, which heads in Walker’s Pass, is fed almost perpetual enows, and ita north fork, whic! has ite Beed among the highest peaks of the Slecra Nevsda, is a roaring torrent the greater part of the ear. So, to take all oo = into hoee persons who expect to find s fortune ia s day, or dirt richer thaa three cents to the pan, had bet- ter Gad at home. Mat! as bandsomely atthe Indian Reser- vation. harvest is gathered, and the threshing machine is doing ite work of separa: | tion. 18 is indeed @ most interestin sight to obeerve parties of In occupations, working with the utmost cheerfulnesa and alacrity; some diiving four and six mule teams, some feeding the th maciine, and others attending the large crops corn, potatoes and watermelons. The waeat crop is the best I have seen th's year. A small portion of the yield bas procuced as much a3 seventy bushela to ibe acre, and the whole crop will average thirty- five bushels to the acre. The barley crop, belog sown late, is rether light, especially that part of it sown latest. The value of the present crop, ao coercing to Loa Angeles prices, is estimated af from 2900 000 to $100,000. It is certaialy au enormous crep, considering the latences of the eeason at which Opetstions were commenced. The Indians are arriving cally in small 5 ond are immediately reported to Mr. Bishop, tha worthy fuprrintendent of the farm, wuo ts not lon, in ducing them employment. A more happy set beings it bas never beco my lot ta see; and although each tribe speaks @ different dialect, such a thing as # fight oro quarrel bas never havpeved amon; ay Captain Howard apd on tracd intend , BA. soon as our horses are sufficiently reated, on a short tour of exploration to Owen's Lake and tue desert beyond the Sierra Nevada, and return through Walker's Pass. You may expect us in Stockton about the Ist of August. A party of twelve persona left San Diego on the 6tb inet. to search for gold on the Colorado. ae are sturds mountaineers and ing men, if gold does exist in that region, they will flod it. They are to remain one year. The Murder on Board the Yankee Blade. {From the San Francisco Herald, July 7.) The Unsted States ve. Edward Smapies mands aot —hndicted for Murder.—1t will be a thes fendant while (oy Tre reno chest Jeace in the country.- Messre. Houstoa and ote ck bouse have paper specimens, which nce the most skept 5 “Trem Humbug Fiat, and the Ant et the mouth of Wooe pecker ravine, we beot of anocesa. The com- bere at the Eureka eb weil remunerated. Ox Alla Hil, eome enterprising aitigens have s i and Grass Valley slides bare | aid “Doctor, I have | 1 killed that over her briefly, the Vpom the atival of the vemel bere, { * i ” Capt. Howard and myeeif arrived bere on the | hgh whee hing! Heo A op {| Clay and Montgomery streets, op) retofore named, y io also related. Qne cf these letiers thus describes the character of Avery:—“ Ho is amiable, kind and charitable in his Geyer inheriting much of his grandfather's peculiar » easily excited, and ia real danger peffectly "" ere were addi tional witnesses to be introduced for the defence. ‘The District Attorney stated that ho would defer his nolle_provequi ur til tomorrow, for the purpose of allowing the Court to dete mine what disposi- tion it woe in tts power to msuke of Avery. Goverr or Foote stated that the latter's friends and relatives here had taken, or would take, means | to vend kim bome to bis family, where he would be taken care of, In the meantime he is detai ned in custody. The Bateman bepeiy Affray at San Fran- CO” ‘The case of H. L. Bateman, charged with having committed an assault with deudly weapors upon Mr. Frank Soule, editor of the San Francisco Chro nice, was brought up in the 8 court, on the 3d of July, for a prelimivary examiaation. Colonels Baker and Baillie Peyton, and Elcan Hey- wi Mba Pt Be ting oe (eae Boule cas Vileon and G. ley, for Mr. Soule. Mr. Soule was first valled, and at that time testi- fied subst a8 follows:—On Friday, between four and five o' stingy i re atl, od ek et com rr) ant fore I rea the eidowalk at the inte: of I Clay, ight friends, stand- rushed at me and etrack, Hi Fg ga ESE tL i we met T was to amar ierean, Taare aimed, to my knowledge; if any laid hold o} Mr. Bateman, it must have been Mr. Beckwith. Mr. Wilson testified that he was present, but did not geo the difficulty whea it commenced; he was talking with a gertieman, azd heard the report of « pistol; he rushed through the crowd, and saw Soule o¢we, struggling, and Bateman, with 4 pistol in hi+ band, pointed towards Soule. The witnes« jumpod at Peteman, to take the pistol from his hand, bat failed, and Bateman said to him, “G—d d—n you, pistol upon him; he fired at witness twice, whilst he waa endeavoring to get out of the way; at that time Beteman was standing on =~ hecho - Patten’s. Witness could not say have come from Bateman whilst I was looking at him. After narrating his precipitate retreat across the street, aud falling under a cart a from the pistol of Bate- aig! Ff } witness thinks +f any other shots than those which were fired at Wilson. ‘Mz. Bharpe eatified that he caw Soule on the cor- per,and saw Bateman attack him; Soule drow \ack, avd drew his pistol immediately; as he st- vempted to cock it, two persons upon bia, ana Soule fell; other parties rusbed tuwaids Bate: men and tried to take hold of him; saw the pistol in his hand; the next thing bs saw of Bateman wa? bebind a hardcart, about fifteen fect from Soule; foule was down, ard Batemas advanced two paces ond fired two shots at him; saw no persoa except Beteman fire; witzess saw Soule all the time, aad ways thar! e did not fre at all. ‘Off cer Blitz testified to nearty the same facta as | the preceding witness, and says that Bateman was about tea cea from Soule when be fired at him. Mr. Hazt wea also called, and tbe i: at part | of his testimony confirmed what had ly been | The Closed, and the defence called =| Peet Witness stated that ke was Present, and beord Gve or six pistol shoes; the first | was net fired by Bateman, ee in the middle of the street, and thi at Bateman; Bateman then drew bis pistol and fired at the man who fired at him; two more cross ebota were then fired between parties; a fitth shot was then fired at Wilson, anda sixth, but witnese does not kuow by whom; witness ‘was star-dipg between Bateman aad Soule, bat did Bateman shoot at Soule; witaess said ae : ie Hie : i, ® i E H t H ait at ze HE ne A i 7 | E 5 i ad J i Ef i i <§f at Raese? e i i F i ! i i E i 5 SEF i istic Bate ‘The court informed the counsel that he wedld not cispore of the case Leer Agar t The case of Mr. Soule was theo cailed a talseed bs court, who remarked that in the evi- dence which had been given, thee was w show that Mr. Soule had been Chins shox an assault, \On the 6th of July, the Recorder having held tne setimopy under advisement, proceeded to deliver his opinion as follows:— Mr. Bateman, you are charged with making am astoult with deadly weapons. The statute says:— “An assault with & deadly weapon, instrumens, or other thing, with intent to inflict upon the of anctber bodily injury, where no considerable vocation ap) ears, or where the circumstances aasauit show an sbandoned and maliznant heart, shall subject the offender to imprisonment int State prison vot exceeding two years, or te a fas not ex eeéing $2,000, or to both such fine and im prisopment. Tre que:tiun is whether you cam be chargtd upder the statute. In o: der te determine it, it will be necessary to review the evidenve ia the cage. You were on the street for the purpese attecking Mr. Soule, and information to thas effet woe sent bim by his friends. He ap; oa the street, and passed by you unmolested two or three times. The third time yon. attacked bim, ani pis- tols were drawn. The testimeny shows that Newell and Soule first drew pistols, and that Newell was the firet one who fired. You drew a pistol ag as possible, but did not fire until after was soon shot at. The Cert ab eee by he at Boule or Ne eis ba pooaible' would fire at Soule, became be by your oak ® and turned upon bim. You were wroagin making the assault in the first place, but made it with your band, not with a pistol, wher a third party attacked you with Sealy weepaats had a right to de/end youreelf. When y cry Newell and Wilson, you were much doubt labored utder an spprebanace, per r. If Newell had not drawn s pistol, sone id bave been used, and it is upon him,therefere, that the burden of responsibility in this case reste. In ——_ original assault, you were without provocation; and it was much increased the which the article published in the C’ cle most produced. Considering that you were actin; and that a pistol under great excitement, ‘was first drawn upon you, I will not send youte the Court of Sessions. The assault upou Soule is admitted, but it cannot be denied that it. was dese onder great provocation. The tone of the urti le which was pul in the Chrontc/e is muck to be egretted, and I think it ecough to excite any wam f courage, or even 8 coward, to fight. It is wome than an attack in mere words, and still worse fom he fact that it will be read not only here but where. But notwithatanding all this, I have « duty o perform voder the Jaw, and although [ may tai he provocation great, I must fire you hea You vndertook to revenge yourself on the pu thoroughfaie, 45d in a manner thst must certainly Lave brougbt about the use of d-adly weapon, lm pocent ies, women and children, on the streeta, migbt have been killed, and it ia only s wonder that some persons were not injured. every msm bad such @ right, no one would be safe along our streets. From all tbe cir 28, becomes me to make au example of { oil therefore fine you $300, I thivk tbe provocation ‘Was 8 very great ove, and I wish it distinctly um derstood that I fine him so heavily because he made the See ee the vhereby tre eras ine cpaious yn. of town, Wi inmocens par fa may tare suffered. i Miscellancons Items, Lanp Disrurs—SHoorinc.—Mr. Peter Yeager, son of the proprietor of the Frapklia Brewery, near the Fott, waa shot about 7 o'clo. k last evening, by young man named Chas. Watson. Weave into md that Mr. Yeager owzs a piece of land about one hua- yards gout it of the Fort, which is claimed by two men named Stearns avd Brown. Under the direction of the latter, Watson and two other samed James Ogden aud Charles Marion, pi yeeterday to fence im the disputed property. go engaged the Yeegers, father and sun, went over bee Sentra A conversation ensued, daring asuleged by them, the father accidentally tore the boards of the fence in an .attempt to hola 'ateon, who aeeerts that the Yeages were engeged in tearing down the imuediate- ly dis hargzed one load of his revolver at the father without effect, and another at the son, with the above Sree wah informs ae that the ball ees dope the lumbar verte 5 trating of about three inches. The Pound dangerous. Watson, Ogden and Marion were sab- sequently arrested by the police, and confized ia the city prison. The wounded man was brougLt to tom bs the circumstance of John McGowan stabbing Alex. Motthews, with » chisel,on board the lord Dufferin, while lying in the harbor a few weeks since. Some words baa between who was tue sbip’a carpenter, and when tbe latter stuck the fo. mer in © Gowan, who at tie time hada chisel in his head, ina fit of anger plunged it into the breast of the captain, killing him almost instantly. McG>caa delivered himeetf rp to the authorities, dec! that it was pot bis intention to have killed G. Matthews, bus the Grand Jury indicé-d him fer menslaughbter. Yesterday he was taken belee Juoge Deke for trisl, aod after heariag the teed mony, the jury brongbt iv a verdict of aot and i was cischarged—-San Francisco C1 6. Mouuper 1x Nevapa Counry.—A Nevada, to the Sas;umento Union, states tint one o'ckoek P.M, on Wedeesvay, Jnly 12, a mem yes name of Thomas Amersou ent a jainis Fiat, ove milo below Jefferson, on South Yuba river, 0 cupied by James Tisder G. T. Barvey. Mr. T. beirg a short diar the cabin, beard three pistol shots and the Bartey. He hastened to the house, just ia tee Amoreon drawing bis kuife from Baruey. On calling to Amerson to. desist three shots at him, but nove of them Berney received t2 ree shote and five ee ane The i abot H lis; Res & 5 i i iT] | posed case was robbery, as there was re aa of any difficulty exwting between the murderer bas eecaped. He is a man about t four years old, dark complexion, black eyes, bair, = about pharpes a oy bigh. Hele oe muscular man, end weighs it 180 pounds, em American, and from Alabama. Despsrate ArruaY—A Man Kiiiap—A dew | patch to the Sacramento Union, of July 1, states | that aserious diffi ulty cecarrea on the afteracom of the 30th of June, at Alpha, shout 17 miles from | Nevada, which resulted in the death of one persom and the wounding of another. At the termine of 4 lawsuit before a Justice Of the Peace, one of the ies named John Odell commen: col noel eg res Bell. During the aftray Me latter wan knocked down and badly hurt. He then retreated to bis bouse scroas tye Street, beiog pursued by Odell. The latter thea commenced beating Mis. Bell, who bad come gt to save her uebwal While awingipg her round by the bair of her head, Odell i the id he ‘4 Wed ‘at ten o'clock. Bieplca B, Godee wos caled, aad tesited Vas was shot in the a9%e by Mr. Bell, whe meaawhile had recovered. Me fired, it is said, three times, pase@i through the head of Mr. Hi: Stree, who ww at the time endeavoring te = hima from the fight. str. Be Odeh, oy poe ed wares aehort Gime, Odell ls oot considera is not considered ow