Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-09-19
Latest from California,

The following interesting intelligence We cx-
tract from the telegraphic dispatches Of the Pic
ayune
BALTIMORE, Sept. 14.-The steamship Empire
City sailed from Chagres on the lst of Septem-
Der, bringing torty-nine passengers and 5000
600 in gold, one third of which is in the pos
session of the passengers.
The steamer California arrived at Panama Au-
gust 9th, bringing fifty one passengers and
500 ;oooin gold from San Francisco.
The election underGen. Riley's proclamation
took place on the lst Of August, when Il large
vote was east. Peter II. Burnett was elected
Judge OF the Superior Court, and Horace laws,
Project.
Elnigrants from Missouri, over the noun
1lhs, were daily arril ing in California, We
condense various editorials Of the AltaCalltor-
MA INTO the following summary .ofneWs:
Ifo'lslols are plentiful at the mines, and
goods may be obtained in the city of Sacramento
d. inc prices they are sold at in San Francisco.
Inc health generally OF the diggers at the mines
REMAINS good. By the arrival Of u gentleman
from the Stanislaus Washings, we learn that
work continues brisk on the tributaries Of tue
San joaquin. 1t is also attended with more
satisfactory results than followed the operations
Of the miners in the spring. Mines with very
rich deposits have been found in the North
Fork of American river, known by the name Of
Smiths Bar. Digging has for some time been
attended with great good fortune. There is
story current OF Il BaltimOrcan who but recently
arrived in the country having realized $4,000 in
gold in one week, unaidcd with any but the
commonest mining implement. Reports are
generally credited here that the daily average
digging of each man, by the best authenticated
accounts, can be safely set down ut one ounce
of gold.'
"We have a few days later intelligence from
the gold Washings on American river, also from
luba and Feather rivers, announcing that ma
ny ofthe deposits on the Rio Americana have
become exhausted, but that new discoveries
were every day occurring. Since the floods
have abated, the work of digging has been re-
sumed, under circumstances Of the most ~tlatter.
ing character to the miners. The best feeling
prevails among them except on the question OF
Entertainments. Our people are united III
determination to eXpel the Migrants OF other
nations from the mines, and the movement to
this effect is a general one" The roads through
the country are crowded with Chilians and a
MeXicans, returning from the placers. NO
has yet been employed to eXpel these
and ut the date ofour latest advices, all
was quiet" -.
"a gold region on Yuba river, fifty miles from
its mouth, has been recently discovered, 1t IS
stated that the miners on these new waslings
have been highly successful. On Feather river
also, discoveries are reported to have been
"The Mormon Island Association is nearly
completed. In three weeks, it is presumed,
from the latest dates thence, the dam they are
building at that point will turn the river from
its bed. Shares i'll this work are selling at
$4,000 each. [The bed of the river is supposed
to be immensely rich in gold deposits.] At the
junction Of the work above this point, another
association has been formed, with u similar OBJ
in view. A great number Of persons are
employed at work on it."
although the hot weather has set in, it is not
accompanied with the amount of sickness that
anticipated. Very few cases Of illness are
said to exist in the valley of the Sacramento
1t is hoped that our fellow-citizens may this
season be spared Il visitation by the scourge of
was not 50 severe as that Of the pre-
ceding year. The heat is intcnsc--l45s in the
[This1nust be a very great eXangcra-
can attack was made a few days since at the
"'S I"i'F VI AA!iI A'h' iN"itN va
several tents belonging to the Chiliaus, when
the property Of the latter was destroyed OF
stolen. The excitement was very great in
consequence, and nineteen of the offenders are
to have been arrested"
The average passage of steam vessels from
Panama is sixteen days-some more, some less.
Since the departure Of the last steamer, the
number OF persons who have arrived at the port
Of San Francisco has been 3,6l4. The steamer
has been repaired and is again ready for
Great excitement exists at San Francisco
in consequence of a riot which took place there
on the 10Th July, during which seventeen men
arrested, charged with a conspiracy to rob
the peaceable inhabitants of the district of their
property. Theodore Sanders and Samuel Ro-
berts, two of them, were tried and found guilty.
lhey were sentence to ten years confinement
in the penitentiary.'