The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-09-07
Correspondence Commercial advertiser.
California News.

Correspondence Commercial ADVERTISER.
California News.
SAN FRANCISCO, August |, 1850.
The news from the mines is somewhat discourag-
ing. The rivers yet too high to work advanta-
geously, and ravines have not dried up. Compa
MES of miners are at work turning the rivers
throughout the gold regions, and we may expect
good reports from them in the course of another
month. Claims on the Yuba, thirty feet square,
have been sold as high $4,000.
The troubles at the southern mines, particularly
in the neighborhood Of Sonora, still continue. The
accounts of the murders committed really
frightGu, and the end is not yet. The Mexicans
and Chlians will be driven from the diggings, and
armed forces have been organized to carry such
proceeding into effect.
At the Mormon Gulch the foreigners have re-
ceiyed formal notice to leave in one week. The
fact is settled that the Americans and foreigners
cannot work together in harmony-and if either
party must succuinb, the side to which American
sympathy will be given cannot be doubted.
There are those who trace ali these disturbances
to the foreign mining tax, so called, imposed by
the last Legislature. The foreigners resisted the
payment OF the tax, (twenty dollars per month";
and consequence, wherever they had good
claim they were driven away by individuals who
urged the pa yment of the tax az an excuse for
such proceedings.
Murder Of Americans followed, and the offence
charged to the Mexcans and South Americans
without attempting to designate the actual perpe-
traitor. The tact has been proved that, among the
recent immigrants from Mexico, came many Of the
highway robbers of that country, and am dis
posed to believe that most of the robberes and muir
ders were committed by them. The chief of one
of these guerilla bands is now in prison in this
city.
The prospect of large business this fall is
couraging. Workmcn are engaged in grading and
planklng the streets, in view of the rainy season.
Artesian wells and reservoirs have been made and
fire companies formed TO aid in preventing the
spread Of conhagration. And in fact, every thing
looks cheering. In haste, }. a. ,.
The Pacific Ne,cs, prepared for the steamer, says:
Since the sailing OF the last steamer, the condi-
ton of the overland emigration has taken the
strongest hold of public attention The immense
crowd who coming TO California by the route Of
the plains is beyond the capacity of that region TO
sustain their teams, and toward the latter end Of
the journey, when within about three hundred
miles of the Pacific side, about the sink of Marys
river, the teams have given out, and there viii be
utter inability on the part OF thousands to pass
the Sierra Nevada, unless assisted from this side;
this is already prepared TO be done by private
teTprse and there Is no probability OF fatality from
dosttuton before the end of the journey Is reached
Another great object Of public interest has been
the great number Of murders and assassinations
which have lately taken place in the San Joaquin
mines, most of which have been traced 10 the Tor
eigners of Spanish descent and but opinion ia
expressed viz that they shall and must quit the
country, or abide perhaps extreme consequences.
Meetings have been held TO that effect, and some
Of the first citizens of the country appointed TO
TO see the undertaking carried into effect.
The foreign miners tax has worked well, either
compelling aliens TO pay for their intrusion upon
treasures, compelling them to leave the pid-
for our daily arriving fellow citizens.
The mines are yielding largely at present, but
there is more associated labor in the forming OF
dams, &c, than formerly, as isolated enterprise
has not been 50 successful ne heretofore. The gold
region has scarcely been scratched yet but the sur
,f ~. r,cI lien
dug over, although not 1.-THE Of the mineral de
post has been extracted.
A settlement has been formed Of the eastern side
OF the Sierra Nevada, in the upper end Of Carson
Valley, by the Mormons and from its agricultural
capacities il likely 10 flourish, although the gold on
tllAt side has not been found in great abundance
permanent settlement there viii be OF great i'm
portancc TO future emigration overland, as they
will be within n short distance Of that DESERT where
all real danger is apprehcndcd by the bclatcd or
exhausted immigrants.
There has been no further news Of collision be-
tween the American settlers and the Indians on
the Trinity river. The mines there have not turned
out well so far
THE OVERLAND ilMIGRATIoN.
meeting was held at San Francisco on the oath
Of July 10 devise means To relieve the suffering Of
the immigrants then coming over the plains.
letter signed by number OF the citizens, urging
the mayor 20 call this meeting, says:
Information Of direct and reliable cbarac-
ter has reached va, Of extraordinary suffering
among the overland immigrants. Several, who
arrived few days since at Sacramento city, state
that they fifteen twenty dead bodies on the
road. Thcse came TO their death from starvation.
Provisions gave entirely out and the only subsist
encc now left TO the immense train still on the way
arc mules and horses. The grasses have given out
also, and even the mules and hOrscs, their only
hope, arc dying.
The following is an extract from a letter in the
Sacramento Transcript
The number now on the plains is variously csti
cd from lNl0 600 spula destined this
Eldorado, the half Of whom will not reach here
without suffering, and one quarter without sub
sisting on their animals, or enduring starvation
have seen hundreds, more than one hundred and
fifty miles on the other side Of the sink Of Mary q
river that were out Of prov isons, had but few
pounds TO sustain miserable and wretchcd exist.
eucc, with animals that could never reach tic de-
crtby reason Of the scarcity Of forage.
Mary's river IL six or seven feet higher than was
ever known 10 be before; the bottoms, where the
only feed grows. are almost entirely under water.
Not being able myself for several days 20 get grass
on this side Of the river, hired some Indians for
& Is 10 swim across and float some over 20 keep
| my animals from perishing. Had been entirely
| destitute Of means, as thousands are, would have
suffered in that particular in the same manner.
| From this circumstance alone, IL may be possible
thai three fourths Of tho animals now on the plains
uust perish from hunger, and the immigrant, with
HE scanty fare, must foot II till life itself becomes
| burthon.
Those who started late will fare still worse; as
| the season becomes warmer, feed less and proyi-
sions shorter ! saw one with two email boys,
one hundred and twenty miles beyond the sink,
who had left his wagon and lost all his animals but
one, and all the provision he had was three or four
pounds Of rice; another with his wife aud children,
J overlook seventy-fve miles beyond the sink, with
four horses that we're just able Go move with the
| empty wagon, the wife walking ahead, in the burn
ing sand and scorching sun, 10 relieve the poor la
! den animals, that were destined TO see the
sink. saw, on the roadside where slices had been
taken out OF dead horses and mules TO appcasc the
.gnawing appetitos of immigrants.
| The original inventor Of the Lucifor match, in
such universal use, is now living in Chillicothc.