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rupted richness. The gold mines of Cali
|%fornia are now in reality discovered!
The influx Of population into the golden
region is going on at an accelerated pace.
The Alta California says:
About 10000 persons, mostly young men,
compose the overland emigration this year.
A portion of this body is already in the
couGtry, and parties are nearly every day
arriving. Captain R. Owen, who piloted
q company across The country by the Santa
Fo route, diverging to the northern road.
crossing the Sierra Nevada, and ent erlng
California near JoInson's rancho, reports
the emigration in an unusually forward
state, with provisions plenty and to spare.
The grass along the road had been album
|dsnt, and but in one place was it believed q
scarcity of food for stock would be encoun
tered. This was above the sink Of Msty's
river, and here, by abandoning the road, a
subsistence could be procured.
In reference to the overland emigration,
the Alta California remarks:
II is necessary that we should state, in
order to relieve snxieties and clay the fears
which have been but unduIy created, re.
.garding the general prosperity Of the over
land emigration this year, thst latest &C.
counts are highly encouraging, and repre-
sent the entire body fully FIVE weeks earlier
than the emigration Of any former year
We deem this statement but jvst, in view
of the wrong impression which has gone
abroad, and which EXISTS even to the pres
'ent time TO a great extent in this place
The friends Of emigrsiing parties, residing
in the States, may rest assured Of the gen.
ersI safety Of all, end that aside from the
ordinary fatigue and privstions Of the jour.
|ney, no suffering has as yet been expert
The following obituary notices We take
the Alta California Of the 18th Of Sep
|tembrr:
On Sunday morning last, after an illness
of two weeks, Chester Ipgersol, native Of
Vermont.
At Sacramento City, on the Isl inst, Col.
Henry Helm, late Of Cincinnati, Ohio, aged
az years.
And the s~ubjoined from that pepper Of the
goth:
At Mercedes Diggins, on the 9th irst.,
Henry Orville Comsiock, Of Shelburn, W.,
aged % years.
On Wednesday,, 18th inst, at the United
States Hotel. in tins place. Of diarrhea,
Henry 8. Pearson. printer, aged about 33
|yesrs, q native Of Philsdrlphis.
Married, on the 18th September. at the
house Of the bridegroom, BY the Rev. DR..
Mines. Of the Church Of the Holy Trinity.
San Francisco, Edward Wehler, Esq. mer-
chant, TO Mise Nina Sauef, ell Of San Fran
cisco.
The bark Tsuro, Capt. Low, ga days
fam New Orleans, with forty.sev-n pas.
sengsrs on bnsrd, arrive at San Francisco
on the 7th Of September.
The ]. 0. o. F. were about to establish
q lodge in San francisco.
The Government Postoffce at San Fran
cisco is represented to be in "most admire
bic confusion" The Placer Times of the
lst Sept. says:
Somewhat less than ten PostmasfeYs have
been appointed in as many weeks succeed
ing each other with a rapidity p, culiar to
the lively state of affairs in California. A
Postmaster is sent to San Francisco with Q
salary of $4,000, when at the same time the
Postmaster General knew, or should have
known, that such pay would scarcely furn-
Iish clean linen for the incumbent. By the
last mail from San Francisco not a single
letter was there re.mailrd for our Postofice,
though though the Postmaster here has for.
wsrded to the Office below upward of 2.400
names, and has done all to insure the spec.
|dy forwarding of letters to his ofice-only
the letters originally directed to this point
came. We have now Q population, in this
Vicinity and st the neiehboring mines, of at
least seventeen or eighteen thousand souls,
ell ~anxiously looking for letters through the
Sacramento Pustofice. f-r
The American ship Flavius, Csptain
Cook, l66 days from New York. eighty
seven passengers. arrived at San Francis
co on the Goth September. The crew were
in a state Of mutiny and were transferred to
the u. s. ship Savannah
[By Telegraph for the Republican,
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