The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-08-06 00:00:00

CALIFORNIA.

From San Francisco, California, we have accounts to
the 18th June, of a very important character, received at
Panama, on the 6th ult.. hv the stp.m_.l,4,
widen had on board £26,000 value of gold dust on freight.
Another destructive conflagration had occurred at San
Francisco, which destroyed property to the value of
£1,000,000 sterling. New discoveries of gold had been
made, and also in Oregon. The San Francisco Herald,
of the Ist, says, " The news which will be conveyed to
the United States by this steamer is of absorbing and
painful interest. The disaster that has laid in ashes the
most thriving and wealthy portion of our city is the most
important item of intelligence. We rejoice to be able to
state that the enterprise of our citizens, although it has
received a severe check by the fire of Friday last, has,
nevertheless, not succumbed. One hour and a half after
the fire had been subdued we saw carpenters busily em-
ployed relaying the foundation of a building that had
been torn down but two hours before; and various con-
tracts to have buildings immediately erected had been
even then concluded by some of those who suffered hea-
vily by the fire, so indefatigable is the enterprise of our
people. Artesian wells will be sunk, reservoirs con-
structed, and engine companies organised.
" The intelligence from the mines is of such a nature as
to prove that there will be a greater quantity of gold dug
out this summer than ever before. We scarcely know
which valley, the San Joaquin or the Sacramento, has
sent out the richest specimens; but the gold comes from
both regions in sufficient quantities to prove that there
was but little extravagance in the assertion that the ore is
inexhaustible. It has been found, too, as far north as
Oregon, and as far south as the mountains near Los
Angeles. There appears to be a ridge of gold bearing
quartz running the whole length of the country, almost
north and south. The ore has been found richer in the
mountains of Los Angeles than even in the mines of
Mariposa. We have seen large masses from both localities.
As found in the former place, it will require the employ-
ment of science and machinery ; the one to direct opera-
tions, the other for grinding the rock ; and with these two
agents engaged it will afford, from the immense quantity
that exists, sufficient employment and compensation to
three-fourths, at least, of all the superfluous labour of the
United States.

" Business has been drooping for some time past in all
our principal cities. In Stockton the merchants ascribe
this depression, in some measure, to the operation of the
law requiring foreigners to purchase licenses. The law
was, as might be expected, extremely unpopular amongst
that class of miners. Latterly they have become more
reconciled to its operations, and have, in most instances,
we believe, returned to their work. The law will become
a nullity as soon as the act of Congress admitting Califor-
nia into the Union shall become officially known to our
state authorities.

" The recent murder of Glanton's party by the Yumas,
at the mouth of the Gila, has caused an order to issue for a
detachment of United States troops to proceed to that
point for the protection of emigrants, and for the punish-
ment of the murderers. Captain Lyon has also proceeded
to the head waters of the Sacramento to investigate the
particulars of Captain Warner's murder in November
last."