The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-04-02

his pSr.uit Of the famous San Mgus wurdersrs ssns
epop The fugsiv~s this eide ~ Santa Bsrbsss vh~rs
he road lsys upon the besch They russsed ther
arrest spS ~ the stray the murdsr~rs killed.
tb'e~ csptursd. sbd one took to swinmiog DO.
a. and ct i..s SeSn ' .'s. S~ios made to him, b.
tsrDed to swim for sb<rs bat dIowpsd before r.soh
ing u Hia BODY ~n vssh~s In BY tho surf aad -ss
foupd wounded In two pisces The three men CAP.
,urtd were conducted to Ssns Barbara tried and shot
Thus the i've ses di'posed o. One Of the wAs
the voluI,srr, the other. bis CON Mon and shrss
sailors. we're dsserters from thu Warren The s~o
io'p.r srs enpPoesd 70 have eon.ittsd marder on
pursutpg party vas killed.
Thee iscs are given BY psarson having been told
Dsess, frcn Santa Bsrbsr and rode - fee ~ s.u
Luss Obispo IN o'mpsny With The mail rider. They
are Therefore c seasd 70 credit
Apeeles. Why, l know not-doubtlsss to oonuu-
Meat. with ID. .%.ly arrived Dragons. There /.
he cannot get back soen the rivers AL SWIM
(From the Boston Tnvellse. March 81
Letters have been received in this CITY, overland.
to The 9th Of February. They represent business
as be ng very dull, with NO prospect of its being
any better. About $1,000 persons In all had lett
Valparaiso for the gold d,gg,pgs. mostly foreign
ers IL Impossible to describe (say the letlers)
the excitement which the gold discoveries have
created in Valparaiso and all along the coast OF the
Pac fic. 1t was estimated that several thousand
perrons bad mortgaged their properly 10 order to
Two vessels arrived at Valparaiso on the 5th Of
February from San Francisco, the chip Huntress,
(Which carried out government stores and troops
ir m New York; and the American bark Undine.
vessels were to return Immediately to San Fran.
cisco. The Undine, which was only of about 200
tons huithen. had been sold for $24O00. Her cargo
brought at San Francisco an immense profit. A
Ia Epvv1 al IJ~k L.
had also received $50 600 FROM San Francisco.
There were twelve ships loading at Valparaiso for
San Franc'sco-.among others, French ship of
200 tons, which takes out $50 passengers. THESE
California. At San Francisco the wages of me-
chsuics ranged from IS to $40 per day. A me
chsnic (whose name il glven) left his work at San
Francisco and went to the mines. He worked
A letter received In New Bedford yesterday
from Valparaiso, states, says the Mercury, of that
place, tina the whaling ship Uncas, Gellett, was
at that port Jan 9th, last from Saa Francisco,
with about $50, OC0 in gold dust, bound home.
One Of the Providence papers publishes letter
from G. H. Gould, addressed to his father, dated
Honolulu, Nov. 9th, in which the writer says:-
g.. am here In command Of our bark. the Mary
sold cargo there this time to the amount OF &c.,.
coo. have not time to give you description Of
the state OF the country. There are, at present,
about 10 COO people concentrated at the mines who
gold dust, and many Of them strike a vein. and
get out, in value, at SIG per ounce, from 800 to
$1,000 In day, Pretty fair digglngs, these but
the country IN the immediate vicinity Of the mines
Ia very sickly; and hundreds are dying off with
fever and ague, and the Sacramento fever when
10 fatal in most cases There are thousands
fOckiDg into the country from all directions, and
not very deslrable people to populate a country
with. San Francisco, at present, has neither law
nor order the mObocracy have the day. I was
compelled to pay laborers Sc per day, and board
them, TO discharge my ship. The whole OF my
crew deserted the vessel, and there were about
twenty other ships in the same predlcament"
The New Orleans Delta of the oath ult, gives the
following;-
AT anchor off Mazatla0, Feb Is, 1919
On the 18th we arrived at San Bias, distance
frs m Acapulco three hundred and fifty miles. We
laid here four or five hours, landed two Peruvian
passengers, and then proceeded to sea. But one
or two OF the passengers went on shore they re-
ported that the most flattering accounts had been
received from the gold region. They state that
the re 2Ion is now covered with snow from six to
sixteen feet deep. and that there are now at San
Francisco some fifteen thousand persons who have
returned from the mines, waiting un.l the snow
disappears, which will be about June. One ship
and two briggs are lying at San Bias, chartered by
Mexlcans 10 take them to California. Some twenty
hive Americans are there, who left New Orle ans
on the I'd January via Tampico, waiting for trans
portatioO. The Mexlcans will not allow any Anne.
ilcan to 60 In any vessel they have chartered Six
of the Americans have purchased a long boat,
with which they leave tor San Francisco in a few
DAYS.