Arkansas intelligencer., 1849-04-07

The gross amount of sales from ii has been S3l, =
QUO. My partner came with two cargoes, and
we have cleared over 100000.
SAN Francisco, Dec. %, lS4S.
Real estate has gone up here, as well
as everything else. A store and lot paid SIT :
0UO for, yesterday.
Lumber Is worth $50 per NJ, and the carpen.
ters can earn $40 per day.
The entire population Of Oregon have aba a.
doned their crops and homes, and ire coming here
The Sandwich Islands are deprived of all their
foreign population. Every vessel from any port
on this coast is filling with passengers for this
place.
Mr.. ---formerly Consul at ---- informs
me that two of his servants left hin, when the
news first came. They have just returned with
$4,000
Capt. --o of the Navy who returned las,
evening from the mines, informs me of one local..
ty which has been found where gold is so abund.
ant thai there rs no necessity for 1cashing The EARTH
100 per dag is tie amount obtained by each man.
Sheath knives used to dig the gold, and have
sold at the mines for $50 each.
have conversed with many old friends of mine
who have been at The mines. and gathered arge
quantities; they all say that they only want two
months more the next summer, and they shall
have enough.
Although this country and town are filed with
gold, no vegetables can be had. We eat but little
else than beef and bread; all agricultural opera
lions have ceased entirely.
Civil Government in California--A file of the
Star and Californian, published at San Francisco.
10 Dec. %, furnishes evidence of the actual ex.
Istence of civil government, for the preservation
OF society and the punishment, of crimes recog-
niZed >bv every society.
On the l6Ih of December trial took place in
the village of San Jose before Judge KimbaI H.
Dinnck, aicade of the district, and iury en-
paneled for the case, of three men, named Davis.
Campbell. and Freer, for murder. The iurv
pronounced verdict of guilty, and they were
sentenced TO be hanged. The sentence was car
red into execution the 18th, in presence Of
large concourse of citizens. The convcts con-
fesscd their guilt. and embraced the Catholic faith.
Three OTHER men were subsequently tried for
participation in the same crime, viz: Cotton
W ooard, and Lee. and the two latter on the adj
dItlona charge OF perjury. They also were found
guilty. and were sentenced for the first offence 10
receive, Cotton ID aud the two others Is lashes,
nd The latter the additional charge. 40 Iashes
each. and one months confinement in tho stocks.
G.. E. Picket. tried Fort Sacramento, on
charge Of the murder of MIR. Alderman, was ac-
Quilted. g..
The provisional government meetings which
had been held as heretofore noticed were first at
San Jose, next al Pue6ia, and then at San Francis
CO. The result was as follows:
n concurrent recommendation to the inha btans
0f California to hold meetings and elect delegates
To represent them IN convention TO be held at
San Jose on The 4th of March, lS49 for the pur-
pose of drafting and preparing form of provi-
siOnal government 10 be submitted 10 the people
for ratification or rejection 5v vote bv b1liot.
The inhabitants of San Francisco were to ho',
a meeting the Sth of January to make choicsk
of FIVE Delegates. .. ca
Al their previous meeting, resolutions were ais
adopted expressing the opinion that the duto,
which have been collected ri the ports OF Uppt-
California, since the 18th of August last, right
belong 10 the people of the territory. re-
A Mr.. Mel'uS, sometime ago reported or !"
way from the god regions. has arrived in PS'o"
confirming the most extrnvagant rumors 'uIn'n@S5 :.
the quantity ard purity OF the treasure le 'n'" r.
that not less than THIRTY MILLIONS Of 1o''arS "
be gathered the first year. He hugs WIN "a
among other specimens. n pieceot So'u WEI
six ounces. valued ut 800, wbcP was Purchuse
OF an Indian bout the time q TIE hrs' discovery c.
for n red shirt. He also bings au'nen'ic oocu-
men!s relative to the finHS OIL piece VI P'o
cold. WEIGHING over f1reJe sounds. 1t was taken
from n n7ocer near tn Stauslas. by an Indian
named Truxillo in re month OF October, 1913,
weighing tzcglre anGone quGrier pounds, avoirdu-
pois. This remokabIe piece OF gold IS almost
entirely free froA dust and stone on lis surface
!, averages in n.hckness about Of an inch; In !
parts it is moe than II inches, and is still! IN the
,,,oSs,.ssioo p. the finder, who has been offered
sl2 80 PEI o.. Notwithstanding the highest cash
price a, .sngeio is $40 per OF. |
4 Smpendous Speculation has been entered IN
n h, some capitalists in Mexico, which will d.
recta large share OF the products ofour California
mines INTO Mexican or English mints. 1t appears
bv the accounts WHICH we published yesterday
from Corpus Christi, that the sum of two millions
and half in Mexican dollars had been forwarded
from the interior of Mexico TO California to pur-
chase cod dust, Il is almost impossible that this