Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1849-10-18
VERY LATE FROM CALIFORNIA

from Chagres She made the run in
five days and eighteen hours, being the
quickest passage on record. She
brought $4,000 in gold dust and aarge
mail.
The steamer Panama arrived al Pa.
mama, from San Francisco, on the 23d,
bringing $50 passengers and 100000
in gold dust, and probably as much more
by the passengers.
The passage from Chagres TO Pana-
ma is now made with comparative ease
and safety. .............
The Picayune says:
BY this arrival we have received q
mass of correspondence and papers from
San Francisco, which we shall lay be.
fore our readers in due order. We
have files of the Alta Californian to the
3lst August, inclusive. These papers
announce that The business of gold wash,
ing was pursued with as much activity
as ever, and the profits continued large.
For the month ending August 30, 8,
sos males and 81 females arrived a,
San Francisco.
In one day, August 90. there arrived
at San Francisco in merchant vessels
654 male and 81 female passengers
On the Both, there were in the harbor
of San Francisco 81 ,5s5 tons Of ship
ping exclusive of about sixty river craft
PLACER INTELLIGENcE.--We take
the following, being the latest intelli.
gence from the mines, from the Alta
Californian Of the 3Olh August:
The month Of August has multiplied
the number of gold washers on the prin.
cipal streams of the Sierra Nevada; but,
the prospects for the mass crowding on
are impercep,ibly lessening. The wa.
ters are nearly at the lowest stage, and
quite in proportion to the increase of
laborers the chances are rendered more
favorable by this circumstance. New
washngs have been discovered, and
old ones abandoned. We have no pro.
digiaus gold stories to relate, bu, con.
finng ourselves TO the simple assurance
Of gold luck for those who labor we
trust not to defeat the expectations of
the most visionary.
The most southerly stream occupied
by miners is Marlposa river, about twen-
,y miles southeast of the MERGED.
The Sacramento river probably forms
the most nor,berly boundary stream of
the placer, but il is erroneous to suppose
the region waiered by it auriferous.--
Gold has never been found upon that
stream in quantities sufficient to Justify
continued labor. Its golden sands"
have never been sifted excep, in poetic
strains.
At Mormon Island a company are en-.
gagged in scientific mining. They en-
ploy quicksilver in extracting the metal
from ground, previously subsected the
pan and cradle process, and with a ma
chine invented for the purpose, average
about 5000 per day.
The subjoined is from the Placer
Times of the 25lh July:
A Tn UNITY RIVER EXPEDITION
Major B. Reading, whose name is iden-
liied with the earliest Anglo.Sax OK.
ploraton of California, has recently re-
turned from trip into the interesting
region of Trinity River. He started
from the Sacramento about the middle
of June, travelled up Clear Creek. and
crossed the ridge dividing the waters of
the Sacramento from the streams flow.
ing into the ocean by The only practica.
BILE route. His camp on this ridge was
one night above the snow line-Trini.
~ River found to possess auriferous
sands--and as the party followed up
the stream, the ore was found in great
abundance. They averaged, for the
few days remaining there. about forty
dollars each, per diem. We shall pub.
lish moro detailed account of this ex.
petition in few days.
The PLAcER.--We suppose we must
say something about the mines, nolens
Uolens. The Peruvians and Chilians
have been pretty thoroughly routed in
every section of the Middle and North
Forks, and the disposition to expel Them
seems TO be extending throughout the
whole mining community. Our advi.
ces from the Middle and North Forks