The New York Herald Newspaper, October 1, 1854, Page 2

" ADDITIONAL FROM CALIFORNIA, | Asotnt of Monn:ains on the Pactto. FIRST ASCENT OF SHASTA SUTIE—iNTSRESTIN SARBATITE. On the Lith iost,, # party of eight made the first attempt to reach tee summit of the celebr Shasta Butte, or M unt Shas'a, the bighesé peek Colifornia, and ators five times as high as Mc Diablo. Mr. E. D. Pie ce, one of the party, fur- mishes the Yreka H+ru/d vith the following interest- ing marrative of "be trig:— . ‘We camped n% ‘be dase of the mountain, on the eouth side. On the morning of the Lith we tarned ourzelves loose for the trip. The firat turee miles we found to be eass of ascent; it took us two hours soda half to accomplish the next mile; thea came the tug of war. We were obliged in many pisces to climb from crag to crag aa vest we could. The least miseteo, or the detaching of the smallest piece of tock, upon which we were obliged to cling for life, would have gently lowered the adventurer frm toree to five tuudred feet perperdicalarly upon tue rocks below. Believe me when I eay that each one of the party, whea scaling the cizzy heights, turned deadly pale, acd I assure Tat most of the pale faces were of long dura'i From this onwards #2 were biiged to exert our-elves to the mtmoat in the way rpping, thumping, &., to keep from freering, for the wind was piercing cold. ext obstacle in our way was the frozen snow, onefourt ot a mile, which we were oliged to paves over, being aa Smooth us glass, av. » mort perpendicular. Here we were obliged t» «peli each other, and cut aotches: Or steve with our kuiv-s. Tous we climbed on the first beneh, some four milesup. The next six miles we found to be very strep and difficult to ascead; £0 muck so, that we were obliged most of the way to proceed on allfours, In many instances our up ward course was tendered both ditficult aud davger ous from the fact t.at we were obliged to climb) ever loose, detacded rock, which was liable at aay moment (0 start o! the shape of an ava. with our Httle par a8 outside passang journey from whi there would have been n> retwn. The second bench or peak, some seven Biles np, we found to 2% composed of a very hart camp, aad came in presenting anything tut a judi cial or military appearance. : Our position was too much exposed to the drit wind, so the whole purty retreated down the side of the mountais for some three miles, where wa camped for the uigut ia a dee» cafion, Abont sunset the wind abated, and the clouds below disappeared. The moon rose, (having filled “ her horns,”) and | gtone wilh urusnal prightoess—and the night was beautiful hough the weather was quite cold. | Before 12 o'clock the thermometer fell to the freezing point, and in the morning, whon we | emerged fcom our frost-covered blavkets, we found red cement or lava, which has every appearaace of | havicg been for ed uy by subterrazean fires. In thia vicinity we discovered three beautiful lakes, one in an old crater on the westerly peak, one e third bencs or peak we found to be com Po-td of a coal blick cement or lava, of a sandy | batwe, intermixed with quartz and burnt giass— and bere, lo and beh Jd, we came in sight of the topmost peak, which we found to be the most dili- cult by far to master, trom the fact that it is the steepest by far, wad in going ahead three fect we patie back four; and in order to make (he rile (aa the boy said about going to school on i were obliged to turn round and go back wai here it was that we found the atmosphere gettiog too tight for comfort, which was fully demonstrated ia different ways, snch aa spitting biood, headache, and being obliged to rest every few feet, ke. in fact some of the party made motions to go no fur- ther. But our motto was “‘ neck or nothiag.” B the way, one of the party, N. Davis, lost his breath once. He made three efforts to regain it, and he al- lowed that if he had not succeeded the fourth time be would not-bave tried it any more. After many a desperste struggle we all reached the heights of Mouxt Shasta at half-past 11 A, O©, waich wwe found to be in the shape of a mammoth stack of chimueys, with barely room for our party to stand upon. Here I pause for the want of language to deaombe the beauties of the surrounding scenery, Not tas pen of a ready writer can ever give you the most distant idea of the grandeur ad sublimity of the face of nature, as far os the eyo could reach. Imagine for youreelf mountains rising back of mountains, large and small, in tue most beantiful disorder and confusion, inter. spersed with beautiful joxuriant vaileys, all well watered with five mountain streams, with hers aud there a crete Jake or pond, and all this seeming!7 encircled by the Coast Renge, like unto a mammoth coral, All this and much more could be scauned at agiance. Who could took dowa from the towering helghte of Mount Shasta upoa the nobie and qon- derfu! works of nature and of zatare’s Ciod, without being cogege d impressed wita reverence and awe, After a few necessary oreliminaries, precisely at 12 o'clock we unfurled the Stars and Stripes, and raised the standard to its long resting place, amid the deafeuing cheers of the little multitude. Cheer after cheer followed in quick succession, as the flag of liberty floated proudiy upon the breeze, watii we were too hoarse to give utterance to our faeliags. ‘Thus our task was accomplished, avd after partak- ing of a little refreshment, and taking a long, lin- gering and silent look at the surrounding acanery, with one award we commenced the descent. Not a hundred tse west of the summit we foun! a clua- ter of boiling hot sulpnur springs, about a dozen ia number, emitting apy amount of steam, smoke, gaa, kc. The ground for some fifty yards around, we found to considerably settled aad com- argos covered with sulohur, and the rocks are ot enough to cook an egg in five minutes. The earth has the appearance of being a mere shell, acd migtty thin at thst. By the way this made us think of the lower country we read of. After reconnoitrizg here for some time, we conclu ’- | ed that it was best for us to leave for fear of acc’ dents. After descending some two miles, wa came to a ravine of sno w.an4 being somewhat fatigued aad in akuwry to get clear of the smell of brimstone we set sail in the following manner:—The grade being on an angle of some 75 degrees, and thetop of the snow soft, we sat ourselves down, feet foremost, to regu- late our speed, and our walkirg sticks for rudders. At the word, off we sped inside of 2:40, aud the like T wever caw before in the shape of coasting. Some ped their rudders before reaching the quarter (there was no such as etopping,) some broach: ed to and went stern foremost, making wry faces, too eager to be first down, got oF too steam, and went end over end: ile others found themselves athwart ship, and making 160 revolations per minute, In ahort i} wasa spirited race, as far az I can see, and that waa not far, for ins trie we found ourzelves ina snug little pile at the foot of the snow, ing for breath. After examining a little we found that some were minus }, Some boots, some pants, and others had their shins bruised, and other little et ceteras too numerous to mention. No one knew what time wo made the four miles in; however, it was concluded by all that we were not over five minutes and a haif on thesnow. Thus ended the incidents ot the day, and we arrived in the camp at 3 o'clock P. M. FIRST ASCENT OF MOCHT BOOD—INTERGSTING NAR RATIVE—EFECTS OF A HIGH RLEVATION CYON THE HUMAN 8YSTBX. We sive to-day an interesting account of the firat ascent of Mount Hood, » snow capped peak in (re- , estimated to be 18,J61 feet bigh, even more than Mount Shasta, and heretofore unexplored. The narrative is given by the editor of the Uregonian, who started on the 4th of August, with a party of genticmen under the guidance of Captain Gariow, an old mountaineer, to ascend the pesk. d the first night at Foster's, about 20 | ies om Bo. "rer ) miles’ | dreds and perhaps a thousane miles irom Poitlang. For some 30 miles from Vos. ter’a the ascent over tho trai!, or immigrant road, as it is called, is gradual, except an occasional hill, which to an inexperienced traveller in the moun- tains, would seem to be an insurmountable barrier to further progress. After some cight hours’ ridivg over a rough, unsettled country, in a hot sun, the most of the way destitute of water, the party attain. ed what aj to be the summit of the first beach of Mount Hood. A few rode below they found a dne guar Spring of the purest water. The partator continues:-—After two hours rest, and partakiag of refreshments, the order was givea to“ saddle up;:” we were soon ander way av Tne route trom this point soon brought us into.a decp valley, tarongn which a considerable river, eniled the Sandy, runs directly from the sno capped mountain. The party pushed on at as rapid a pare os the road would admit. Th ough this whole valley the rotie was over 2 low bottom, full of large boulders and sand, over which our horses were Obliged to make their way as best they couid. We encamped in the bottom for the night. Grass | ‘was scarce; conseqnently, ia the mornin Tome trouble in finding ali the horses, as they hat wandered s mile or more from the camp after food. However, we acon got under way, and tollowed tue we had | ships, sudone on t e side of the easterly poak. | same which, a we descended, became more rapid, aad the valley more narrow. Towards noon | pat the eecond “lift,” or bunch of the moun- We were to meet Jodge Olney and Mejor Hwlar, ‘of the army, on the south side of the snow peak, as sear the snow a3 possible. from this rendeavous wo ‘were distant four thousand feet. We started on foot up the steep ascent not less than forty degrees, after two hours of ling, puffiog, panting Dlowing, we ettained a top, without serious in- or loss, save the anathemas pronounced ‘the horses of the train, and the animal species ‘e found, hewever, after ing to the was still a second, third, and a all were ascended, and we atrived Capt. Barlow had designed we i GH : iif After this we again under way, and leaving ‘the trail a dense forest, direct for the spow pesk. We forfad the woods than we badanticipated. By keeping on the: of land we were enabled to avoid the deep dectivities. In about three hours hard travelling, we suddenly an open plain, c Tass and lofty oye ed wate foonsd wablime grandear magnificence, apna- seatay nox mors than mile or so distant. We, however, travelled full two hours np an ascent of shout twenty degrees, which bronght us to the senpod for the. nigh, On. the e ie a On the ‘7th, black clouda began bo gathor of the mountain far below us; it B rm commenced to thicderand lighten, and the w 4 blowa galeiromt wi wage Ovnoy aus i ajor Haller, alter mvs Asigulty, diagovered our cur tie cups about cne-third fall of ice, from the water teft in them aver aight. b At this point we thoaght we could discover, thrcogh a telescope, smoke sscendiog from th ex- treme pinnacle. It had not previously been gup- pesed that Monat Hood was a‘ this time volcanic, do the morvirg of the Rth the purty it ae high spirita, determined to reach the summit. The anima s were pusued at double quick time up the side of the mcuntain, as far as it ¢as eafe or practi- cabie to take them, where they were quickly stripped of their burdens and picketed. In 9 few miantes alt were off for the top; each took som> provisions, and were proviced with well-made croepers, iron so.ket mountain ataffs, with hooks, ropes, &c.. same kind that we ased in ascen. ha Pate - indispensable Helons last year, and which we fousd We cowmenced the ascent upoa the southeast side be for climbing snow-covered mountains. by fist traversing a sharp narrow ridge between the | head waters of Dog river on our right anda tribu- tary of the De Chutes on the left. This ridge was attained by first crossing a chasm of about five hun- dred feet in depth, formed by the water of the last | pamed stream. After two hours’ hard climbing, we stopped to refresh. We then continued the ascent and ina little waile our naked ridge was lost in the mantle of snow which now lay spread out beforé'and on either side of us. After attaining a high altitude, we found the snow. ta; ipg in waves cimilar to a “chopped sea; therefore we had to rise at almost every atep from six iaches to two, three and sometimes four feet. The sun had softened the top of the snow sulliciently to make a sl ght indentation by the boot. ‘bus we continued to ascend for several thous»nd feet at an angle of almost fifty degrees, whea the rerefied atmosphere begaa to exhibit ita effects upon all, but more especially upon Judge Olney, Major Haller and Captain Travillot. Soon Major H. could f° no farther, in consequen:e of dizziness in the cad, which effected him seriously. After a whije, Captain T. found the blood start- ing from the surface and was also attacked with a lke dizziness, when he prudently declined going farther. After a few rods further 1 the ascent became more steep—by theodolite 70 degress— where Judge Olvey was reluctantly com id to balt, in consequence of the singular effect of the air upon him. From this point, we were compelled to make ateps by ki king the toes of our boots several times into the snow. By following close to the edve of a large ledge of rocks lying perpendicular with the mountain, where the suu’s reflection from the lecge had softened the snow, enabled us to get comparatively a good foothold. Our friend Lake followed close upon our heels. Tue Indian, who lad now a govd pair of creepers and a good moun- tain staff, seemed determined to go as far up as the Jostens”’ could; although he could not be induced to lead the way or even to go between us. For nearly two hours there was nothing said, except an occasional word of warning from us to Mr. Lake to * close pannage,” and the response of — all right !”” —-* go abeaa !—* we'll come Pally, at 24 o'clock P, M., we a‘iained the sum- mit on the southeast side. We found the top simi- lar to that of Mt. St. Helen: xtremely narrow, | jaying ia @ crescest shape. Mt. St. Helens faciag the northwest by a crescent, while Mt, [fs0d faces | the southwest. Lhe sharp ridge ontop runs from the southwest to the north, making ® sharp tura to the west st the north end. The main ridge is formed of de ompose? volcanic substances of a tight redcisa color, wish cones from twenty to fifty feet Ligh atintervals of a few rods. Toese cones or ocks are fall of cracks or fissures, as if they had been rent by some convaleion of natuce at a remote period. Between these cones there are numerous holes, varying from the of a common water bucket down to two or three inches in diameter. @hicugh these breathing holes—as we call them— aud through the es in the rook, there is con: stantly escaping hot smoke or gas of a strong sul- pluric odor. In passing over the ridge ior near halt a mile, we discovere breathing fi intense than others. We didnot catry up a thermome'er; therefore we could not get the exact degree of the heat; but | from holding our haad over several of them, we | have no doubt that the thermometer would have | shown “ boiling beat” in some of them. As soon os the Indian ciscovered by holding bis had over ove of there “ breathing holes” the existence of gre beneath, he immediately retreated as far as he dare go down the mountain alone. The smoke or gas was very offensive to the nostrils, as well ag irri- tating to the eyes. We attempted to look into seve- ral of them, but were prevented from getiiug more ttan a momentary glance, for tie reason above menticned. We, bowever, rolled stones into them, ard could hear them descend for a considerable distance. We remained about one nour trayersing the ridge and examining the country in the distance. We could distinctly ste Mounts Jefferson, Three Sisters, McLaughlin, St. Helens, Rainier and Adams, besides two other snow peaks, whoss" rames, if they have any, we are anacqnainted with ; also, Fremont’s ik aod Shasta Batte mcuntain in California, Tuese last mentioned peaks must be aay quite five hundred miles frora Mount Hood. vast extent of country over which the eye could reach, would be received as in- credible by any bat tuose who have beea upon these towering mountains on a clear day, and in an Ore- gon atmosphere. There appeared to be s bank of wg hanging over the ocean, which precluded as from seeing it distinctly. There was also a dark cloud or bank of smoke lying off the northeast, very low down, which shut ovt a small portion of the country in that direstion feon our view. Aside from this, the whole country for haudreds of miles was in plain view before us. Inthe distance on either aide, could be traced the different ranges of the well known great coast range on the west, the Sierra Nevada on the south and southeast, the Siskiyou on the southwest, and the Bine and Rocky moun- tains on the east, besides the creat head of the Cas- | cades to the north. These, tegether with the thou- sand smaller zangea, with their innumerable crests and indentations, present to the eye a perfect forest of mountains, Bearing south 15 degrees eaxt, ata istance of perhaps about 49 miles, we dis overed a lake surrounded by a large prairie or open cow try. This lake, so far as we could learn, was entize- ly unknown. While on the top of the mountain we were startled by a tremendous crushing, rambling noise below. At first we anticipated it to be un eartlquake, or some- thing of that sort. Judge Olney and those lelor heard it also, and accounted for it on our retarn. It was caused by an avalanche of rock under the im- mense bocies of snow which lay in large fields hun- feet indepth. We examined some chasms in the snew of very near or quite a thousand feet in depth, and two or three uurdred feet across, extending horizontally with the mountain for a grest distance. The late hour of the day, together with the visible inerease of cold, forced us to rewace our steps down much eooter than we desired. Our descen$ was much more rapid than our ascent, although a portion of the way apparently more dacgerous. The Jatitade of Mount Hood is {/ deg. 30 inin. AU the specimens coBected st or near the summtit, are composed, of decomposed granite, some blick and some red; second, lava in large quar state, and brimstone od with um; third pumice stone; fourth, isu granite aud brimstone; fi{th, ashes of @ light yoilowish red color. The eruptions appear to have beon on the sunth side, snd of remote date. The most sinvular of aliis the appearance of the | ridge we ascenaed. Upon this ridg ‘eare LUM. bers of old, dead, screbby tranks of the mountain aprace tree, which extend for nearly or yaite two wiles higher up than at any other poivt. Lhe cor clasion is irresistible thas this ridge has been wu heaved, or, in other words, raised many thousands cf feet by some corvuision of natnre. The last’ vestige of vegetation ceases to exist about two and s half or three miles from the summit. immense cavern was discovered by Capt. Tra- A | vaillot and Mr. Lake, on the southwest side, about two mies above the snow line. Time would not allow ht e it minutely, which we much regretted. io descending from a rarified to a dense atmos- phere, thore who had not been serlously affected wy the ascent came in for their share of ‘the ge debility and difficulty in broathing. We had our full a] , aud were fora time entirely unable to travel more than a few rods at atime, without lay- ing down on the snow or ground to rest. (nthe lith the party reac! week engaged in the exploration. The Caves of Calaveras. HOW THR SKELETONS CAMR THERE MAINS—GHOLOGICAL CURIOS) TIBS, FTC. Mr. C. FP. Winsiow, writing to tho California Far- mer, from Marphy's Camp, giver the following in- teresting description of tue Cavea of Calaveras und Tuolumpe apd their contenta :-~ POSSI, RE Abcut one and © half miles from the Stani-laus, | we came to the Limestone Cavo, whie' bas been often spoken of, of late, as heiug the receptacle of Laman boues covered with calcarcons deposits, This we dil not enter for lick of time. We hid passed bont half 4 mile before ‘earning its whereabouts, eodasthe doy was eo hot and the suu advancing, we consifered it best to pags without explotiag it, ‘This we could dispengs with the better, as we rast » perscn who had exp'ored it sarefully, and who of- fered us fragments of hnman skeletons witch he had takeu from tle cave. jight and pot imprennsted cr recos 4pars, bee others whic verinid with calor. {haye econ frsaq tho & large number of these | o'es; throngh some the heat was more | hed Portland, haying been just a | Theae bones were dry and | eae pe fo met an old Indian, snd baving \ the Indisa oe wid him, oman bones were of comoaratively re: \eposit there. | A few years befo e the whites came. coun: | ty there were two trikes of Ind! tile to each other—one lived in cave, the other about ons mile from it, om a hill in | the neighborhood, but separated by a deep bie | | They met im fight, and the tribe living nearest the | cave, numbering about -eixty, was overpowered and | killed; and the conquering [odians fea:iag to make | | files to barn their bodies, which was a cu-tomary | | event on suoh yocasions, on a count of arousing no. | tice from other tribes, threw inem headlong tato | | this cave, They struck egainst the sides aad so | lodged in some instances w short distance from the | dower cad of its mouth. { ‘The cave is about thirts-flve fect deap, is irregu- lor ip form, and is not more than twenty feet ia ex- tent in dfftrent directions. The bones have been | all taken away, and the stalagmites also have bsen | brokea aud removed, £0 that there is little now to interest one in exptoringit. In this vicinity is also | another cave, with an éntrance rather amali and | | about ore bundred feet deep, from which bave been taken some very large and finely crystalized astalac- tites. Abouteight miles from here isanother, which | we inteud to visit tomorrow, These are all ia lime- | stone districts of country, and are cavities Loliowed out in this easily soluble material by the long con- | Unued aoti.a of water, € | Last summer I visited a cave in the vicinity of | Columbia, formed by the forcible breaking up of the rim tive or metamorphic rock hy subterranean vio | | lence, Toe hill was :ounded over this cave and the rock broken in various directions, and huge masses were tilied and lodged agaiost each other, so that | large caverns existed under the hill and were con: | nected with each other by low or narrow passages. } The witvie had been often filled with water, and when a vast reservoir for mining purposes imme | distely cver its mouth suddenly sunk away into it | last summer, it was observed that the water obtaia: | 6 an outlet some six miles further south from the side of snother bill, This ciccamstauce chows conrection of the fractures and indicates a aimul'a- neous action of force by whi¢a some of these hills were elevated. I observed no teeth nor other ves- tiges of aniral remains in tht cave, though it had been aeserted,by the first explorers that the teoth,of | some large animsl had been found there, The remains of ancient quadrupe is, however, are frequentiy found in tue flats of the neighboring re- Biens of coontry where the miners are at work pro- curing gold. The fire at Columbia burnt ap many epe- cimeps of remarkable organic remaina which had | been collected by miners while excavating for gold | amor g the drift cf the valleys. Texas flat seems pecu- | Narly distinguished for these remains. [ nave nowa | piece of bone temporarily in my possession, probably ;a fragment cf the lower jaw bone of a mastadon from | that locelity—and a person at Texas Flat assared one | of our party that a tusk pine feetin length and twenty seven inches in circumference, had been lying for a twelvemonth on the ground near his cabin, but had been recently removed by some one | | who felt an interest in collecting such’ curiosities. | It is desirable that ali such relics of tue ancient | ; fava of this portion of the country should be pre- | served, and I trust that the miners of Texas Flat | ond other miving regions will preserve with great | care the relics of this kind, and forwar? them te Tue or some other person who will use them for con | tributing to the already great accumulations of hu- | man knowledge. Such relics, though a sort of | Curiosity to most persocs, are, after all, of no real | importance to them; whiie to tose who feel a spcctal interest in the progress of science, they ba- come of great value ant importance. A -ollection of these remains of extinct creatures, whether of | quad:upeds, fishes or shelis,or eves of tres and | plants, will lead investigation to the most interest- | mg results. The discovery of trecs and plants long | since extinct, and of animals which ceased to live many thousanda of years before Adam or Noah he- gan to look upon the sun and breath the beeata of | life, would lead inquiring and pilosop ric minds to | @reconstruction of the ancient topograp»y of this continent, so that maps of the Sierra Nevada, the Coast Ranges, and of the Pacific Ocean, migat be mate, which would be so unlike the present that | we shouli not recognice them ag belonging to the | seme latitude and longituie. | All geological antiquities are of the greatest in- terest to markind, especially ail fossil remains; and too much care cannot b2 manifested by individuals, nor by the State, in preserving all these relics in | fire-proof safes or buildings. Indeed, the vext Le gislature would do itself honor to cause to be erect- €d a.fire proof edifice, as a public receptable for all remains of thisgort; for perhaps no country iu the world, from one end of its domains to the other, contains a richer mine of fossil wealth buried in its bosom than does this very State of California; and when @ great public scientific storehouse has hecome filled with this foseil weaith, the genius of some maa will be stimulated to put bone to its bone, and b cathe Into extizct races the breath of life; and new forme, not now dreamed of, will be seen ing over vast plaics, which arenow lofty and rngge mouttaius, or ee in seas, whose bottoms were coverea with gold dust which is now being taken trom flats and ravines seve-al hundreds, and even thousards, of feet above the level of the pre- sent ocean. Sach will be the results from some of the investigations to be dedaced from the carefat pre:eryation and atudy of the remains cf the extinct races found on thia western slove of our continent. They abound in the drift of all pa:ts of California, from the sula on which stands San Francisco, and even in the heart of that city, tothe flanks an suwmite of the SierraNevads. This ficld is rich in these mat , and miners and common laboting men are the persons, in their humble bat necessary | employments, who will add mostly to this stock of | important knowledge. Lynch Law in Ban Antonto—Two Cattle Thicves Hung. [Trom the San Francisco Hera‘d, Aug 24 | For some time past the people residing in Uontra Costa, | endali that section of the country, bare suffered much | from the epredations of cattle thieves, aad so great had | become the acdacity of those who engaged in this nofa- | ous business, that it was no unusual thing to heve whole horde of cattle driven off in one night. Ihe work- ing cattle, mich cows and fat builocks of the farm were being constantly stolen, andas they bad learned by experience that very little protection might be expected from the laws, they determined to take the matter in | handthemselves, and meke an oxamplo of ihe first atte | thict who might be caught in the act. About four | months ago, ro less than eighty-seven head of oat! were driven off in one night, and tweaty seven of th | were tracked toa corral near Oakland. A watch was and the thieves were arrested, brought to trial, and sen fenced ta two years in (he State prison; but one of the parties Was soon afterwards parloned by the interposi | tion of the executive clemency exercised 9 often with | discernment. It is a notori that a large _por- | tionof the beef sent over here from Calland ia stolen ef, and a few days ago a quantity was shipped on one | the ferry boats’ at Oakland, but it liza’ scarcely be | stowed away when an offisee cams on based and in | formed the captain that it was stole. The boat was | avout sterting, and tee Captain eaid that he would not | | alow the beet to be delivered in fan Fraacisoo, but would | | bring it back, Snspicion wasex:i-e1, anl the keeper of the toll idgs near Ciinton, with threo or four other men, procee ied to a rlaughter house whivh had auppored to be the headquarters of the catth and hiding themselves, watched to seo wiiat ; pire. This was on Mouday night. Tey mated long till fve hesd of catile slaughtered, and their hides buried. They then or in and artes ed the parties, who proved to be't #: men named Amsdere Carcnne and Petec Aughae who had long b en suapectod as tha chicf cattle in the neighvorhood. They brovght them Antonio, togetiser with the two butchers a' part, The Redwoot tried them, ‘The | sentence of death was pronovaced upon them. butchers who wrete arrested at the same timo, were, hoy rumbering some forty or d*ty, came down from and bronght out ‘the prizoners acl proof of their guilt was positive, and Tho two pee wae not Fira i, it appearing that thor only renne ant Aughimbauit ever, lot loore, as the eric convict them as princi actes ax hited assistants were brought out to a tree thrown around their necks, and they wero eran, one of the trees. While preparing for the exer small party of Frenchmen cams down, for the purgose, | it wae supposed, of rescuing Carenne, but a line was marke out, and thore who ordered the exeention an- | nounced that the Sret_men who wowd step [usitte of it | | would be shot down. The feet of one of the partics who was lung were not more that six inches from th Carenne was reputed to be a wealthy man. His keeps the ¥ otel de France, ner San Antonfo, and is be- | sides the owner of considerable Pas oh 8 Tt is aaid that | aho came forwardon Tuesday night, and offered lar; | numa of money for the release of her husband. Augham- hault waa from Tilinols, At one o’clook vosterlay, the vodies were dargling from the tree, bat the excitement had abated considerably. i Miseellancons, Faxoite 4 May witk 4 Log Caais——Sirock ine Corie =A or tof the Union, writing from lrytown, in » Amador, August 25, says —'' The citizens of this place were excited by the report that another murder had beer committed in our midst A Chinaman, whi js work mining a short distance below town, was attacked by a Mexican and killed with a revolver. It appears the Mexican shot at reveral others, without effect. The miners got track of the villain, and sftora hard chase, canght him near the Q Ranch, eight miles below here. | ‘The prisoner Was brought up wilin about o mile of | town, where « Jarge party of miners were assembled. He | was tried on the spot, aud porit! ve proof! being obtained, it was decided that be should be hung forthwith. the sheriff of the county made several inefectosl attempts to obteln possession of the prisoner, The crowd were sil im favor of hangtwe ean withou: delay, but | oply six or seven men could be got to perform the deol. | No rope beiug at hand, ¢ log-chain was proce red and fast- ned to che limly of etree, with just sufficient rope ty } make a noose of. Tha prisoner was thon mounted ona | Lorre, after being bound, when several atte | made to get his head into none, bat b | prevented them from doing it, Tho log chain was then | towered nad the nooge put over his head, after _ | vently ol) his har ont, The log chain was them hy mecence to the leet. He wana good looking | Officer of the Pacttic division, G | bis beac quarters to Kecicla When ¢ rr | between Batter; and Front steests, which were being ) petrate } of Ta about half am hour he war cet ted by the hinamen. Ho declared bis ia- fellow, about three or twenty four years of age, elim built, and talied 2001 Hpglish Bamovat oF Baapquanrens — We learn tha* Caspstobes ame tohaad by the -onoce, from the War Department at Washiogton, imporatively requiring tho commanding Waol, to remove news of this de- termination on the part of the Seoretary of Wace was re crived, some tro months pines, general regret was ex preseed It had been boped that the order mating Sin ‘rancisco the headquas ters of the Pacific division, which | Went into (fect in October of last year, would be perm» neat ‘his point, in all respects the ceatre ef oonnec. tion both with the cosst and the imterior, is the aetural | sources of prompt business action. Here all contracts gre made, end from “ea Francisco supplies con be far. | nished direct to all the ports included within the Pasific | division most readily and expeditiously. Gen. Wool will leave-n pa st the Presidio, of such force asin his dis- cretion he may deem proper, sad will forthwith remove to the new headquerters at Benicia, with his staff, com- rising the Quartermaster, Paymastes, Commissary and ‘edical Director, One Quartermaster will be stationed at the Presidio There is at present at Beoicin scarcely coommodation for the officers vow at that post, and these will be required to oe place to Gen. Wout and Lis staff, or the latter must look for private quarters nicia is s very proper bong for av arsensl, perhaps, but | for the headquarters vf the army it ia as inconvenient as Mare island for the great navy yard of the Pacide —San Franctsco Times and Transcript, Sept. 1. PAaUinG oF THREE HousEs—Two Mery Kit.ep —Yester- crncon three frame houses on Commercisl street, raised to the new grade, fell down with » tremeadous cerns, buryirg a namber of workmen beneata the tim- bers. ' Tho people la the neighborhood ran wildly out of doors, supposing that it was an earthquake The houses | ro occupied ty Moctier Brothers, dry goods dealers, Gallup & Chester, general merchants, aud a clothi: ato: ‘they were miserable leokirg thastiea, and it was a very hazardous thing to attempi to raise them, At the time of the orash several of the workmen were working below, any of them escaped. It was reveral of the workwen Wer A search being mA ds arcortained to be Condray, was found smashed betwesn two of the houses When he was brought cut life was ex- tiret, audas the body dié not appear to be much e-us af, it is probable that death was occasioned by su‘Toca- won. He was quite a young man, and was preparing to go home ina short time. Gn a farther search another beady was dug out from beneath the ruins of the store nenTest to lattery stroet. It was identified as thst of a won named Kelly, who bad. been employed about the building —San Francisco Herald, Aug. 81. Bawys ar tar CauiFoRNIA Fain ~The managera ef the égricultural Fair of California, whieh is to be held (a San Francisco on the 2d of October, under the patrouage of the State, have offered premiums for the finest banies, and prepared proper accommodations for their exhibi- tion, s the following will indieate:— Comyelitors for premiums on babies mast have them on exhibition between the hours of ten o’clock A M. and four o’clock Y M, on the second day of the fair. A bag hall will be provided for the accommodation of the ‘little children,” and every convenience provided. The comuittee will pass in examination from two to four o’clock P. M. Finest baby under one year old +3100 Second finest do de. % From YRRCA.—CiFPICUITIES WITH THR INDIANS. —The Yreka Herald, of the 12th august, mentions as a proof | thatagriculture is a profitable pursuit ‘in that section, that nearly every man who hes tried it this year is mak- irg preparstioas to put in large crops next season. Another difficulty has arisen with the Applegate Indi- ans, which it is oe will lead to open hostitttics It is thought uneafe to travel in thit part of ths country at wthout keeping « sharp lookont. farted out of Kogue r Valley, Augast 8, | a @ company of volan‘eers to protect the emigrant tra New diggings had been discovered near the top of the Cosst Mountain, on Ice Creek, three miles from Cold Spring House. Some piecss of gold had been found as heavy 2s one dollar. The regular trip of the California and Oregon Stage Company's cooches every other day to and from Yreka, both perth ond south, are adding considerably to the i Yreka. We are happy to see that | they frequently come in loaded down, Improvements on the ronds are progressing. Jenus iN Cauirounta—In this part of the Union it is usually considered a great bore to be caught The cass is very diferent in California; at least so we infor from the following bill of refieshments furrished for the Grand Jury in Sin Francisca, while heldirg the grand ingvest:— 1cz. sheiry wice, Martel's d i Captain 8 do. 5 gla Martell br'd 1 dottla bitters... 3 This would giva each of t tles of berry, 150 cigars, 215 14 quarts of brandy. MonvAuTy OF SAN FRANCISCO —Tho followin table shows the total mortality of Sau francisco from the lat to the 24th of August, inc!usive :— 4 Vottles of champaigne, Chinese, Whiter Yerla Buna Cemetery Lone Mountain Cemete Mission Potores Cemetery Total... The 170 chin . the passengera Ly the Libertad and Exchange. Shocking Murder In Patladelphia. (Frew the Philadetphia inquirer, Sept 27./ Ove of the most suocklog and atrocious murderé which | has oceutrcal in this oity for yonrs past was porgetrated | some time dering Monday ‘night, in Richard Thomas? | French and German boarding house, 36 Dock street, | east side, below Second street. Tao victim is a 'reach’ | mar, whore name coull not be ascertained. We were | | | | | informed by Mr. Thomas that two respectable looking and well diessed Trenchmen called upon him on Mon: day evening and asked if they couldodtain lodg'ngs for the night. He replied inthe affirmative, and conducted | them to a room on the third floor, in the back part of | the building. Vuring the evenicg they loitered about the barroom, and a bottle of claret andtwo. is of ale between thom, which, togetner with the lodg- | ings, came to $1 50, which th Abo! ten ; o'clock they retired to bed, and nothing more was heard | from them until between 6% and 7 o'clock yesterday | morning, when one of them came down atairs and or- | dered breakfast for two persons, stating that he was joing outand would return in about two hours. Toe | fr ‘was prepared, but the absent Frenchman | never returned. About half: past three o'clock the chamberm id of the house entered this room for the purpose of making up | the bed, when she saw a man lying in it, with some blood about his head upen ‘bed clot She imme. | ew raz down stairs and communicated the fasts to | ‘Thomas, the ‘proprietor of the house, who went up room’ and found one of the Frenchmen who hai taken lodgings on the previous night dead, with a pool of Lived about his head. Mr. T. immediately calle im officers Riezle and MeCaa- ley, of the day police, who aleo examined the room. The foriner officer called upon Coroner Goldsmith, ani com municated the facts of the ease to him. That fanction- | ary at once rep to the hotel, and empannelled a jury, who prococded to the room, and examized the bod. “They found the Geoeased lying tpon his. aide in the bed, with a wound on the leit temple, which evi- dent entered the train, It appeared as thoogh a | dagger, or some other sharp instrument, had been forei- biy driven into the head, and screwed around, tearing aad lacerating the brain in a dreadfal manner. There was coneilereble blood upon the bedelothing, and from anpoarance the marder was commitied with little or no Xcugpliog, a8 no noise was heard in the room during. pt. mght There was nothing fonnd in the room, or about the — building, with which the marder could hue been per- ‘i. The deconsed was about thirty years of aga. sclothes, which were found upon ths back of a chaie, coutisted of 8 black coat, brown cloth pauts. and Heht ippers. The missing Frenchmam was a middle sized and good looking young man, adout thirty or thirty-two mot age, and drossed in biack. Ocying the conversation which occurred in the bai recuton Monday night, Mr. Thomas leaned that they | both arrived ia New York but a few days azo, and had | left that city in the morning train for Phila lelphi | Cofoner Goldamith adjou the investigation over until/f0 o'clock this morning, whan a post mortem ex- tic not the body will be made by he. Daffee 4 following was the evideuc# elicited before the y ‘oat swern—The deceased came in about last evening to take lotzinss for the night, “with bnother mam; they naid they cama irom lance to: | gecher, nnd last from New York; thay drank two giatwes {ald piece, and a Lottle of hey ase for @ ron sith two boda, and paid for everything before they went © did; Ttighted tiem to bed myself, abort 10 o'clock: sboub 7 o'clock this morning ose of them came down stairs raid Lo Would be bick in about twa hours, and wante? breakfast preparel; about a quarter etter 2 loft, Sarah Thomas, tho servant, went up stairs, and swe, down and tol2’me there waaa rain deit in bed, ard Mood on the pillow; I found the man cord, and then | went for an officer, I hoard no noise in the night; Thare not heard any one tay they hoard any noiss: | did not notica the aan when he left this morning: he never turne$; they said they had just arrived (rom New Y last whe; the man that wont aray pall ms a one do bank Pill and two quarter dollars, Test night: they agente with them; the man that lett waa about fire feet rae thirty years of agesdark completion, very i stout, fall (used taco, no Wuiskors, dark eyes and hair, | apokelow and quictly; dres Diack, suit all black and bck hat; he Tingiieh pretty gool: he inquired about Camden during & conversation of some time; }t is usual for the cirl to attend to the rooms in th oon; T found the man with tho pillow over his face, dnd the bed cover thrown over it; the adjciniug room Was occupied a boarder; they asked me when they first came in whet place this was, and how far they Philade’phia; i told them i were in Phila leiphig now, and one asked me what plaice that was on ‘he ogposite side of the river; | told them that waa Carden; the descanod spake imperfect English. Sarah Thomas testified to the same facts. Deverorewext or Fracn.—Every now and then, acts age elicited which serve to explain how some of the “fast young men’? are enabled to make eo mach show on woderate salaries. Here is mnother instance, An old setablished iron wlacturing firm found itself seriously ombaztageed in it finances, and lias just been obliged to make an asaignmont to the creditors. Upon au examina | vion of the business account, it was discovered tliat the \ cles, who lad devoted constilerable time to sailing yachisandl trotting fast horres, and Gnalty sailed for arop¢ on & aro trip, hed been unfaithful to the trust pntided to him. sinking his pookete, he bad soem acoustomed ene ase a 0 set Apert & consi Jéradle amount ea the share of ws, Ane to workmen who bad not been ia the employ of iv, concer for & sear past, aad appropriating the #anp a, | around the Limb of atrre, ta horse was Yod ont frou tocar Lim, rhea (ko pesoner bung Minpended O95 » foo, ig aa Ghedormmal of Comore. | Waa pgein arrested ov chargs of forgery. The o: eh | Indiana, for improved | air furnace ! 18th inet. al Newerk by Mr. Van ‘a Among other contrivances for } wrest of Kiaaane ta Oirctanatt, on Charge of Briley Conerrned tn tus Lave Back Wipreen the Cleginasd Gasette, Sept 21.) Or pec!a; 4 we might more correctly aay, Kissare io Meet ethan, as ve Monday re Kissaco cumstances which led to the art stand them, were mearly as followe :— On the 50th of August, two or three of the Now York city benke were swind’ed out of large sums, yerying from $6,000 to $9,000. The following ex- tracs, from a New York paper of Bept.2, shows the as we under | [e adopted to obtaia the money from one of banka :— “On Towasday atternoon, the Chemical Bank of this city was sw: out of $1,000, by a man cail ing bimself n Western merchant, who daposited a | certified ¢ eck for $12,000, and immediately after- wards drew ont $9,000 oa his own checks. It ap- = that be bad previously treeented a forged iter of intioduction, from an extensive mercantile house in the West, to @ promnent fim down town. This letter represented bim as beieg a merchant of high standing and of excellent character. The firm, ieving the leiter to be gecaiae, received the bearer with all ordiality, sud gave him all the ia- he required. Tn the course of the day he stated that he had considerable, funds about him, and wished an introduction at some bank where he could make a deposit. One of the mem- bers of the firm immediately offered to accompany him to the Chemical Back, aud did go, and there introduced the etranger to ove of the prominent officers of the bank. After some conversation he expreseed.a wish to deposit a certified check on the American Exchange Bank for $12,000, drawn by Join Thompson, of Wall street, and certified by the teller of that bank, After the oa f= was mace he drew out $9,000, and left the befure euspision was excited. fraud, was, however, soon discovered, whea it peared t at the check and the certificate of telier were both forgeries. Steps were immediately taken to secure the arrest of tae rogue; but up to lestevening ro traces of him be obtained. The $9,000 was paid in $500 bills, which have been stepped by the bank; so that it is hardly probable that theewindier will get rid of them safely.” On the same Cay, and by a similar p-ocess, the Continental Bank was diddled out of $6,018 50, on a forged check, purporting to be drawn by Verry & Gwynne, New York. A descristion of the person who pre-ented this check was given to the New York police, and by some means-—it ia rumored by a confessicn of one of the persons engaged in the forgery—they have connected Wm. Kissaue and bis old friend, Findlay, with the transaction. They tele graphed the matte}to Marshal Raffin on Moa- day, end on the same cay LP. Lee, Deputy Mar. shal, made an affidavit that on the 30th of Angnat Wm. Kiseane did utter, <c., the for; check on the Continenta! Bank, and on this affidavit a writ was issued by the police judge, and Ktasane was de: coyed to the Fauilow House, arrested and confined ia the watchhou:e till Tuesday Be He was then brought before Jadge Gholson on ao writ of habeas corpus. The | es taken by MeGrearty & Brown, counsel for Kissane, was that the police court had no cognizance of a crime com. mitted in another State, except on uisition of | the Governor, and there being no requisition in this case, the proceedings were invalid, aad the prisoner should be discharged. Judge Gholson decided that there was no evi- dence that the case had yet been before the police court, avd that that court had power to correct its owa errors, or the errors of its Clerk. He should not interfere tii the polize court had had time to | correct its errors it any had been made, and there- fore he should postpone the further hearing of the case till Thursday next. The case was then taken to ths Renee court, where the prisoner's counsel moved his discharge on the same plea above noticed, dat the Judge de- cided that under the “Aet coacerning Facitives from Justice,” Swan's Statutes, p. 556, he had pow- | er to hold the prisoner in custody under the cir- cumstan ‘es, without a requisition from the Gover- nor. {In order to give all pariies time to prepare for the examiration, he [oie the case Friday next, and fixed the bail tor theappearance of the prisoner then, at $10,000, in default of which he was committed to jai New Patents Issued. ‘ The following is a list of patente issued from, the Vrited States Patent Office, for the week ending Septam- ber 19, 1Si4—ench bearing that date:— Henry W. Adams, of New York, N. ¥., for improve. went in breech loading fire arms. Elliot t. Badger, of Warner, N. H., for improvement in mA and Bravo, 1O THX EZDITCK OF THN MBRALD, mit me the fever to repty to the news takea fom ree's organ, the Boletin Oficial, at Acapuls», amt PUbiLhedin your joamalon the 26th icstant, atating ) that “the Mexican Geaersi Nicholas Bravo, (who diet some months since) was uawilliog aod declined grtog oguinst bis old comesde Alvares, and General Saste Anne left his physiclaa with him, whom, the Betin states, poisoned General Bravo ! In addiifon to what is mentioned below, om authority, itis evident that if teue in every particular, the above statement of the Boldin gives tre best reason inthe world thy Genera! Bravo did not march with the govaca- ment forces sgainst Slvaree—he could not, he wae sick— facts sdmitted by his having been in need of ant acceat- ing the attendance of a physician. It would seem to be Alvazen’s desire at the present time to eadeavor to ac- complish against Santa Anva by misrepresentation what be cappot by force; he therefo.e turns even the kiad- ness of Santa Anna to s ceceased friend, as a reasca for unjust imputation, slthongs by so doing, be, asin the present instance, libels the entire nition {Ssianasing avy physician could be found in all Mexico capable éishon¢ring his profession in the way mentioned. Generel Bravo wes ® man alwass traly conservative im bis sentimects, snd from whom Santa Ange world have continued to receive as well important counsel aa effl- cient aid in the rep x of diaueder, had be been stil alive. Genera! Santa Anna bai no reason whatever te desire the death of Geners! Bravo. On the contrary, it was ‘or Santa Anpa’s positive tucevest that Bravo should have lived So far from the latter approving the meve- ment of Alvarez, he wrote a streng leiter-—seea while im Mexico by the New York Consul—condemaing it, aad earnestly advocating and urjing its prompt a. Geveral anta Suna nad thus, a} the time Geuecal Bravo's demise, an well us antecoiently, his friendiy ad- vice, countenance, support apd good oyinion. Gensrat Sarta Anna was t &' yhankful and grateful for Guperal Bra- ‘vo’s influential support good opinion and advice. There was no coolness subsisting between two Generals, and when General Bravo deceasad, ft was at Lis owa bas cienda, distant from the city of Mexico, in the bosom ef his fawily, faiibfully lamented, and sppropriately hoa- ored and remembered at his burial, which was at the cout of the nation. The charge that Gen. Sante Aaua poisened Gen. Bravo, directly cr indirectly, is « mem- stroua fabrication, which eansot be too strongly cea- cemced. Like every other uojust imputation, howerer, against the distinguished Sauts Apna, it had its anjast rource in personal or politisal envy or eamity, General Bravo was choacu by Santa Anna one of the Six Or seven persons whom honored with the Graad cress ot the Order of Guadalupe. ie New Yorx, Sept. 98. 1854, A Great Public Want, and the Way te Sap y ite TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. ‘There has long been, and it exists n0v—perhaps it was never felt with greater intensity than now—a waa! which the commercial and general business interests of our great metropolis, and, indeed, of the who'e country, would find inexpressible relief ia having supplied, Ne _ Matter how vast the commercial operations of our mor- chant princes, or how humble the avocation of the citizen, the prersure of this want isfelt by all, The want I refer to is the want of silver. We find no lack of energy, or of intelligence; no stop- Ping to count the cost of canals, railroads, and ships; a8 limit to the spi lt for mining after coal, copper, lead, zinc, gold;and yet whet are our capitalists, our mer. chants, our men of business, our men of gisnt intel- lects and far-resching thought=-I ask, what are all, oc any of those doing to supply the country with that ia- Cispensitle medium of every sort of industry—silver ? If this metal was scarce or thinly scattered over the country, or too deep below the surface to be got by dig- ging after, or if the cost of distorting its repuse in car- erns beyond the reach of tho miner, were so great a« whin reached to render it profiless, why, then. men, no matter how rich, or how public spirited, or energetic, could not, and would not, be expected toge in search of this metal. Bat it is neither scarcener thinly scattered over the earth’s surface, or beneath it— nor is it in caverns eo deep as to Lavolve 8 cost, making ita possession profitlesr—on the coztrary, it is, and im any quantities, withiz, not orly practicable, but eay reach of anyenlightened, and p-udent, and workiog association who may goin quest of it. It is known not only to lie beneath the surface in masses, but to creep out, looking the very sun in the face. It require: no- thing but comparatively modcrate capltal—practical mining and geological scievee, prudence, economy and industry, ‘o relieve the country of ics pressing want of sliver, besides mightily enriching those who go ia queat of the metal. It would seem necessary only to will to have this wealth, to possess it But where Coes this metal so abound? I answer, just over our borcer—the Rio Grande, and not over fiftcen to twenty days travel from New York—in North- ern Mexioo, where silver, porer than any ever found ia machines for dressing millstones Wm. Black, of the city of *leghany, Pa., for improve- ments in steam ergines. James C. Burnham, of West Jefferson, Ohio, for im- provement in mize harvesters. Charies J. Conrad, of Lower Augusta township, Pa., for method of sewing’ shingles. , of New Bedrord, Mass nic keys, of North Bridgewater, Mass , for improve- 08. ; for improvement ott, of Blisworth, Fngland, for improve- slag ware. ighum, of Richmond, Indians, for sawing ‘Wm. P. Gootman, and Samuel Morris, of Springtown, table sta; ‘ow York, Thaddeus Hyatt, of in vault light-. Jas. R. Narier, of Glasgow, and Wm J. M. Rankine, of Goovsn. Scotian, for improvement in air engines John W. Middleton, of Philadelphia, Pa., for tidal or current bydraulic ram. Wm. H Morrison, of Marion county, Ind., for firearms, Henry R. Myer, of Buffalo, N.Y, for model of con: verting the backs of car ecats into beds or lounges. Abner N. Newton, of Richmond, Ind., for breach load- . ¥., forimprovement in, arm: fesac Pitman, of Reading, Mass., for improvement in rosin oi) Jam, Marvin Smith, of New Haven, Coan. for improved water meter. Sterling, of Bridgeport, Conn., for improvement in counting machines and machines for iniicating motion. | dohn’ Tapley, of Frankfort, Me., for improvement in | umpA. iran Thornley, of Philadelphia, Pa., for improved safety washer for securing wheels to axies. . John J. Weeks, of Buckram, N. ¥., for improvement | in sausage stuffers. Archibald Winter, of Rondout, N. Y., for improved | machine for sawing firewood, &e. Loren J. Wicks, of New York Y,, for improved me thod of operating guide rollers and feed clamps in saw- | ing machines. Bepj. F. Cptop, of Bath, Me’, for improved apparatus | for polishing daguerreotype plates. Abner Whiteley, of Springfield, Ohio, for improvement in grain and grass harvesters. Wm. H. Akins and Josaph G, Barritt, of Ithiea, N. ¥., assignors to Wei, H. Akins, aforeraid, for improvement incalendar clocks. Edward [.. Seymour, of New York, N. Y., com ged to Daniel B. Brown, of sxine place, for improved gold seza- +) rater, John Williams, of Hartford, Conn., aasignor to F. Cur- | tia & Co., of the same place, for improvement In calen dar clocks, List of Patents issued from the United States Patent | Office for the Keck cniing September 26, 1854—-each Dearing that date — N. Aubm, of albany, N. Y., for improvement in gis generators. Fordyce Beals, of Now Haven, Conn., for improvement in Giearme. Award Brown, of Rindge, N. H., for improvement in elastic goods. Schuyler ‘alot, of Slostsville, N. George Copeland, of Danville, Mo., for improvement in elaapa for loom harness. Joreph Albert Corwin, of Newark, N. J., for improve- } ment in krutiing machines, \ Joba Dame, of Portsmouth, N, H., for improved parrel and bow. Jobn Prayton, of Buttalo, N. ¥, for Improvement in vedatoad fastenings. Alexander ball, of Loydsville, Ohio, for improveaent in — fe olocks. Ps., for improvemont in railroad car ecata Hoses F. Halsey, of Now York, N. ¥., for improvement Tg, P'a., for improvement ose, of Pittsfield, Vt, for improvement in whifflotree: Henry Hockstrasser, of Philadelphia, Pa., for improv. cd machine for pacing Woks. JF. Resier, of Oleveland, platform scales. * Charles R. Landmann, of New York, N. Y., for im- proved eufety lamp. Joh Baptiste Lavitie, of ment in machinery for { Patented in France Angust 17, 1852. Paul Moody, of Camdea, N. J., for improvement in congecting @ series of ovr brakes teptimus Norris, of Philadelphia, Pa, for improve. ment in rusning gear of frostion ve engines. Joseph 1. Stockton, of Warren eounty, Ky., for 1m Frovement in the fe pw) to the knives of straw cu'ters Jobr J, Weeks, of Oyster Bay, N, ¥., for improvemen' i foes D Wella ot Morganiowa, Va, for { " Vella, of Morgantown, Va, for improvement Joel Wiener, of Aurora, N. Y., for improvement in washing mach’ Asad Aldrich, of Princovon, Mass., assignor to Joha L. Cooper, of Worcestor, Maes., sad Arad Aldrich, atoressid, for ovement for cutting icreguiar forms. D. W. Gitchell, of Rahway, N.J.. assignor to John C. “Ohio, for improvement ia 4, Francs, for imorove- hata oF lat bodies. Wagstaf, of New York, N. Y¥., for improvement in uniting Yate for seamless tel: gurmonts, im P. Movs ot Washington, D.C., for in- provement in process for making wood. RF IASTES, David Raskin, of Avnsta county, Va., for method of sppiring water lo compound buckets of ‘Maiter wheels. Comer or 184—The comet discovered on Vue National Observatory on the aighta of tho 2 OP. } ite position them an follows -— Tne he Dee. an pee tar ae 10 M02 06 Mass., for improved hot | iraham and Iawreneo MeTaren, of Philsdelphia, | uminating gas from | was observed | tt : 2 Wy. | 4 aN | Central, or Southern Mexico, and in any quantities, les ‘waiting for the science of the miner, the means of the capitaliat, and the energy of wisely directed labor, te lift it from its repose of »ges to the light of the and send it, in enciching streams, into every chaat of trade and commercs ail over the country. ‘The fact is—and it shall be my business, by your leave, Mr. Editor, in the sequel to furnish the proote— that large por-ione of Mexico, but especially Northerm Mexico, is thoroughly metaliferous, Cistrists are known to be almost entirely a substratum of silver, both in the ore and solid mets!. Proofs are in existence, though not perhaps before the world, thet more than _ of all the silverof the world is dvg from Mexican soil. My objectis to call public attention to this subject. I shall only in facts. These 1: hall draw fro: putable authorities If I shall be so fortaaate as to awaken the attention of the capitatiats, the yee | and intelligent, and throngh these resure the superrision of the mining and geological sciences, E aball bave done my country service. Far short as I feel my ability to be to do justics to this subj I do not despair being able to satisfy all sincere im- quirers, who are intelligent, that there is no source of ofit. en) to American enterprise, whether it be in canals, ships, copper, |, tron, zinc, or fold, comparable in thofe cariehing results, to which is furnished in the silver mines of Northerm Mexico. 1f the central and Southern mining districts are deemed to be too distant, those on our own borders, ‘and not, as I have saia, over fifteen or twenty days tra- vel from New York, cannot be so considered, since the copper regions of Lake Suaperior—many of which have, and deservedly, attracted so much capital ard labor— are upon the average of the year, as to dis:ance, not Tce cag oe Kg hs Sar wish my undertaking. in the few al osmeys I may ark you to publish, Mr. Editor. to be conaldece’ fas } Bational light, and not as having reference to any | cular interesta. AMERICANUS. Riot tn Cinctnnati. THREE MEN SHOT AND SEVERAL PERSANS INJURED. {From the Cincinnati Gazette, Sept. 26 | About two months since the Presbyterians fitted up & ) building, near the White Mills, in the Twelfth ward, and | started therein a Fabbath school. The second Sunde: { alter the school was opeued a party of Germans waited uyon the officers of the school, aud requested them to | close the sane, The request was not complied with. | The next ratucday night the schoolroom was entered by | Pertons who tore up the sunday schoo! books, and roke up and threw out the furnitare into the street. The school was consequently suspended, The trustess of the church, determine? upon establishing a school, | rented asmall brick louse, near the White Mills, and | fitted ft up for school purposes. “The Sunday school was again to be opened on Sunday morning Previous to the hour of opening the trustees were in‘ormed hy a crowd of young men that if thoy daret to open their echoes ) they would be mobbed, and their sctooiroom would be treated asi: was on a former occasion, The trasteer, } fesrful of w riot, did not open the school, but procseled | tothe residences of several of the pirties whom they suspected of being the prime movers in the affair, and endeavored to expostulate with them not to into execution the threats tiey had made. Hard | nested between them, «ni tho Germans declared, ontbs, with thet they would riddle the honse and kill the parties if they attempted to open the schoo! By eight o'clock in the evening juive an excitemeat was created, | and hunaveda of persons bad congreza‘ed upon the Bar= | rison road, between the Brighton House and quarreling. Ata given signal, the friends of the trustecs jattacked: | two howwes, eceupied by some of the Germans, @ | owned by Jobn Coleman, and riddled one of them com- | Pletely, A general riot here followed. Pistols ware | i cs fired, and bow]derstones and chibs were thrown; and children were running in every direc‘ion, screaming: and orying for the safety of their husbavds and brothors. + After the three men were shot and a number of persona ) otherwise injured, the Germans commenced a retreat. | The other nents ee Went to the Weatern Avenue Hoase, | and broke in windows and doors, and threw the far~ | niture into the rond. At 10 o’clock a ponse of five ~ | mnen arrived and the rioters dispersed Two of ee | licemen, Dole and Hoightmen, were beaten with chaina, | inendeavoring to make en arrest, but were not seri- | onsly injured. The names of the {bree men whe were j abot we could not learn, bat understand that their iaje~ | i i ries are not of a fatal character. atruck with the bolders’are not ee in onlytwo of the Twel ward police on we understand that the Mavor will, nstitate, am invent gation to ascertain where the other nd the Lieutena: s charged yorteréay, it aut one of them knew that (he | Hlet wee in progress, but refused tage snd pat « stop | the samo, ‘An extra police forse } = in that seighvochsed to provest a repetition af {| ench scenes of violence an bleodshed. | school wil! be opened, positively, om next | morning. ‘ EXxrLosionor a mene the ng ow ) RocursTsa.— 7 eam bollees on the Lake boa and steam Swilt, of Roches: Aan B eraiat the pists at the Toot of to goto New Yorls, consider: é ifs ir fr - i i We i 5 z 3) 5 ft 238 eed in i 2 = aH k 4 his face slight y ‘by eteara and water. The engineer Of the pr 8 of Philadelphia, wae stancung noar the er and was blown over! ‘He was re:oued un | hast, No other persons were, in aay way, than the erciseer, injured, and no comage waa doretothe boat. Eho boat belongs to Captain BR. Hathaway, of Ruffalo, who wor ohargs, and Jay Beil, of New York, ———