Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1849-10-13
From California.

| The steamer Empire City which left Cha.
I gres on the 23th ult arrived in New York on
/ Tuesday. She brings S640,9S0 in gold dust
and "a passengers
! The United States steamer Edith, it appears
/ was run ashore on Point Conception on the
26th August and totally lost. She was bound
for Santa Barbara.
The bsrque Kirkland, Captain Philips, OF
and from Baltimore, arrived safely at San Fran
cisco on the 2ls! August,
The barque Paoli has arrived at San Fran
cisco in two hundred days from Baltimore.
The steamer Empire City brings favorable
accounts from the pIacers in California. Gold
continues plentiful as ever but it is very diff
cult TO obtain. New washings have been dis
covered and old ones for.aken.
The health of San Francisco continues good.
The diarr5ea caused much suffering during
the month Of August, but it is slowly diminish
ing. The cholera has entirely disappeared
from Panama.
The waters of the Sierra Nevada are nearly
at their lowest
Two small steamboats, were plying on the
river Sacramento.
NEWS FROM THE PLACER.
The Peruvisns and Chilians have been pret-
ty 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 advices
from the Middle and North Forks are very IA
vorable. One party Of twenty on the North
Fork, within some twenty miles from the snow,
were averaging 3i5 per day each. gentle
man direct from the Middle Fork informs us
that many Of the old miners are doing better
this year than last lGt many are returning,
who either have no luck or no energy; we
think it want of the latter commodity.
We learn that party are operating on the
Middle Fork with a submarine armor, by
which arrangement they take out many thou
sands daily Of the duet They think, when
they get their apparatus fairly at work, they
will average $4,000 per day.
SUCCESSFUL GOLD DIGGING.
DIR. Ii. Van Dyke, a member of the North
Fork Dam and Mining Association, WHICH
company has recently completed lateral Gu
nal al BeaPs Bar, little above the luncture Of
the North Fork with the Rio Americana, has
inst returned from their scene OF operations -
The work of drainage had been completed on
ly three days before he left, and though the
company labored under many disadvantages,
they had raised in THIS short time over $4,000.
Gov. Shannon, OF Ohio, eX-lGlnister to Mex
lco, is now working in the mines of the Rio de
los Americanos.
party of seven arrived al the Dry Diggins
on the l4rh, having lett Missouri on the 9th
of May. Among them are DR.. ]. H. Dickson,
Pa, and Z. Green, of Michigan.
The California says there was much sick
ness at the minesat last accounts The p" sick
ly season comprises the months of July, Au-
gust and September. Two small steamers
are plving on the Sacramento. The accounts
from the placers are very good. The Califor-
MIA says: we have no prodigious gold stories
to relate, but confning ourselves to the simple
assurance Of good luck to those who labor, we
trust not to defeat the expectations Of the most
visionary la fact, all accounts agree that it
requires the severest toll, hardship and depri-
yation in the mines to realize any considerable
amount of OF the golden treasure. The Kama
kas of Happy Valley have suffered severely
from dysentery, and when we visited them
from their wan and faded features, we felt that
they longed for the sunshine of their native
isles beyond the sea. The Lascars and Chr
nese endure this climate better, and the latter
people do not seem particularly affected by the
severity Of our cold nights and fogs. Although
we have no rain, the dews amount To per feet
night showers, and they lack the general in
fuence of raEn from their coldness.