The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-09-22

low here d auction. thluk thafs will lie good deal Of
money oa shipments OF goods and provisions to this
country The retailers are the persons who will make the
money The fare to Stockton Sacramento City is Sl6
gentleman from Connecticut who has been up at the
Mines gave the following list Of prices as having been
paid the middle fork the Saoamentn-tbe prices are
BY the pound Pork, s2 -four 81 rice, 81 potatoes Ell
sl tea, %; coffee $2 beans 81 dried apples Ga Is;
Tans % co. fresh beef S1 These prices were paid three OF
four weeks and caused by the scarcity of transpo
ton They must down, facilities of that Kind are
increasing Boarding at the Mines "a but bv find
ing provisions and cooking it, live for 90 or 90
per day.
About the produpdveness of the mines could give Won
some marvellous accounts but hear much that do not
know how much to believe but that there is plenty of
gold in California have doubt and a person with
health and moderate share of luck will be able to make
from one to two ounces per day with chance for more
| saw very pretty lump Of pure gold weighing sixteen
ounces Just as was dug out of the grOund-hey tell of
Jumps weighing several pounds.
Rents of property here enormous. The Parker House.
situated on the Public Square and which would have cost
$500 5000 to build in the States but which here cost
ss5VO rents Tor $4,000 per annum the keeper of the
Hotel rents one Of the for gambling for $S 600 per
year. rather neat little frame building with portico
around two sides of it. painted and situated the Public
Square, rents for hundred dollars per day for Brokers'
Office. Rent Of ground ON the principal streets is enor
mousa spot Of ground II feet front by IS feet deep rents
for slOO per month. Gambling is the great vice here
money plenty, and win lose with apparent indiE
ference. On Friday last of party lose
thousand dollars all he had another won four thou
sand but had lost few days before thousand They
tell Of merchant here, from New Orleans, whose
forget who has $25 coo within the last three weeks
had high opinion of the order of this place when
f came here. We pitched tents and left great deal
of our baggage outside, kept watch and had nothing
stolen goods lying about the Streets but nothing
missing tsincs that time have somewhat altered nay
OpnOnfor account of a robbery and attempted aisss
sination of New Yorker last Friday night and mob Of
lawes rowdes, who have styled themselves Hounds and
Regulators last night refer you to the Alta CafoHna"
which, doubt will have more full account than can
give The mob was rather serious Several per.
badly FOundedtwO of them supposed be NOR.
tally. They madehe attack the Chaus and Peruvians
and said to have robbed them the of $50 O0
The citizens called meeting appointed police arrested
several of the rioters and them on board the
Warren A good deal of the stolen property, which had
been eoTesd in tents about the town. has been recovered
majority Of the people here for war The most of
them desre 10 the foreigners driven from the mines but
+. are not in favor of robbery and murder,
CAPT George Kerr has left for the Sonora Encampment
saw Mr. Freaner to-day. He appears well and is full of
business.
Our goods have not yet arrived We expect the vessel in
the CouHe Of month She started from Phladephia on
the4th Of February Most of the vessels which have al
rived have been from five six months out The quickest
trip made by the Gray Eage-shs made it in liz days
Our baggage which sent from Mexico to Acapulco to
be shipped, has not yet arrived.
The steamer California arrived herelast night She brings
news from New York the 3d. Her mail will be ready
for delivery before morning, when expect to
make my disappointment in not receiving any letters
or papers when arrived here.
From the papers brought by the passengers, thst
things in the States do not stand still while are absent
The New York the loss of the steamer Empie and
destruction of e the ST. Louis Ere the death of Gen.
Worth. and the danger Of New Orleans from water are
events of ordinary Importance and to get them as we do
all crowded into one day, stsrtles good deal sin.
cerey hope that your city has escaped the damage which
threatened it at the last accounts.
The Oregon making money from this California
excitement. Their -four lumber butter and salmon COM
mand good prices. have convened with some Oregon
men, who represent that country fine agricultural one
This opposed to all my preconceved notions. The our
brought from there is certainly fine must see Oregon be.
! fore going back to the States. JFH