The Sun.
London, England, 1850-06-24 00:00:00

CALIFORNIA.

We have California dates to May 1. The gold
digging represented as in a highly prosperous con-
dition. The new settlement at Trinidad Bay pro-
mises to be a place of a good deal of importance. On
a beautiful plateau on the northern shore of the hay
the site of a town had been surveyed, and buildings
are now erecting in considerable numbers. The
harbour is said to be the finest on the coast, with the
exception of San Francisco and San Diego. The
Legislature has adjourned, after a session of 100 days,
having passed 143 Acts, most of which were essential
to the complete organisation of the State Government.
The people express a decided adherence to the position
they have assumed in favour of free soil and a free
constitution.

DIsCoTERY OF A MOUNTAIN OF GOLD.
(From the Pacific News.)
A party of emigrants by way of the Salt Lake ar-
riving at Los Angelos, ga'e an account of the existence
of gold on that route, east of the principal mountain
range, when a company then fitting out for a spot about
sixty miles from the Pueblo changed its determination
and proceeded in search of this other. The route lay
in a north•east direction from the place of departure,
and full of difficulties. Striking the Mahahve river,
they followed its course some distance, crossing and re-
crossing as necessity compelled, some days as often
as fifteen times, leaving it where it makes a bend
to the south-east, towards the Colorado, into
which it empties. Obstacles were encountered at
various points of the journey almost insurmountable, in
the shape of mountains of rock, which they had to climb,
and mountains of snow which they could not avoid, nar-
row gorges through which they had to pass, and still
narrower cliffs. along whose crests nothing but a mule
Gould pass with a prospect of safety, and where the
slightest mis-step would land rider and all hundreds
of feet below; but they pushed on about 230 miles from
the Pueblo, the point , for which they started. Here
among the eastern spurs of the Sierra Nevada they
found the object of their search—gold, and silver too;
and in such quantities as they had not dreamed of—i
perfect mountain of rocks with silver and gold mingled
and commingled in solid masses weighing from one to
many tons. The quartz proved to be exceedingly hard,
to such a degree that during their short stay all the im-
plements made for this particular purpose before starting
were completely worn out in the operation of drilling
and blasting.
The strangest part of the whole discovery is yet to be
told. These large boulders of gold, silver, and quartz
hare the gold in the south end and the silver in the north
end. No exceptions were found in their examinations,
the silver being the most abundant of the two. In the'
words of the person who was on the spot, " there is
enough silver there to sink every ship in this harbour."
Possibly some may look on this account as a jest, and
so far as the practicability of putting the discovery' to
any use at present is concerned, it is so. All the water
to be found for miles and miles around is highly impreg-
nated with salt, or saleratus, or both. Not a single drop
of water free from one or other of these properties did
one of the party obtain during the ten days of their stay'.
The whole region is a perfect waste, and disease and
death must inevitably
follow any prolonged stay. On
their return they met a large company going to the same
escowioemitt
spot. A true statement of the difficulties and dangeri of
a further
to turn baPckm--sut °fonth.
The gentleman 'named,-from wham theist factibilo
e expedition induced aboutpo
been. obtained, is new in ,this'city, with specimens Itt,bils
Possession brought from the morhser;enioti
barent a ienv.e r sTheyee
are the most singular and benutif
and one need only to see them and hear him to be coil:

',rimed that nothing has been told but the truth.
These facts are cosnmenunicated, by the gentleman
who headed the party of exploration—a gCutleinan for-
merly connected with the New York press, Mr. Itiell, of
the New Era• The specimens we have seen:
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JAMAICA.
%% have dates from Jamaica to the 29th ult. There
is no news of any importance since our last adtices.