Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-05-17
CALIFORNIA ITEMS.


Passengers by the Georgia report that
gold is more plentiful than ever, and that
property has somewhat fallen in prices.
Provisions and even luxurics are very
abundant in San Francisco.
The Legistature.--Th dav previous
to the sailing of the California, the col
lector OF the customs in San Francisco
was notified that the money collected for
duties must be paid over to the State
Government in accordance with res
oiutlon passed by the Legislature, and
steps are being taken to form an ndcpcn-
dent Government. commodore Jones
1t is said is about to take active measures
to prevent it,
"A law has passed the Legislature i'm
posing tax of 25 dollars a month on
every foreigner who works in the mines.
a bill has been introduced in the AS.
sembly to provide for the inspection of
steamboats, at San Francisco Also, a
bill to suppress gambling.
a resolution was adopted, nstructing
the Judiciary committee to prepare and
report at as early day as possible, a bill
to prevent the immigrationo all persons
not citizens of the United States from
any part of the penal settlements of
Europe. A bill of that description was
reported on the 20th of March
1n act to incorporate the city of San
Francisco has passed the Senate.
Election Of Judges.-Thc following
gentlemen have been elected Judges of
the several judicial districts:
Districts. Districts.
I. 0. S. Wcthcrby, 6. Jas S. Thomas,
2. H. A. Tiff, I. Robt HOPKINS,
8, John Watson, 8. w. r.. Turner,
4. Levi Parsons, 9. w. Sherwood
5. @. nj. Crcamer,
The salary Of the Office has been fixed
by the Legislature at 81, 500 per annum.
From the Gold Re9'ons.- The Pacific
News of the 2Gth of March has the fol-
lowing information relation to alleged dis
coveries of gold on the Eastern slope of
the Sierra Navada:
The existence Of gold on the Eastern
slope of the Sierra Nevada, although not
seriously questioned since its discovery
on the numerous streams heading on the
Western side of the chain, has never
the matter free from doubt. A gentleman
who has just arrived in this city from the
East by the way of the Great Salt Lake
and Los 1ngelos, informs us that the
question is settled.
In what quantities the gold exists he
is unable to say, as want of provisions
precluded his party from halting long
enough TO test the richness Of the dis.
covery. The metal was found on the sur
face of rotten granate and to a certain
depth intermingled with it, forming the
bed of a stream then dry. Its locality
is about two hundred miles from Los
Angeles, on the old Spanish trail between
that place and Santa Fe, in the neigh
borhood of the Little Salt Lake A
party has left Los Angeles for the spot,
prepared to test the availability Of this
new placer.
The Pacific News of March 80 soys
that the travel towards the Southern
mines is increasing every day. and the
prospects in that region, the coming
season, are more tlattcring than last year.
New placers are discovered as cxplora
tions are made, and new towns laid out
as the population increases. Stock is
said to be growing rapidly, and business
becoming brisk as the roads to the mines
become passable.
Extract ola letter addressed to James
Gordon Bennett, by j. A. Scovilc, ESD,
late Private Secretary of the Hon. John
c. Calhoun, and published in the New
York Herald, Sd May 1850:
Since writing the foregoing, have
read the following extract from speech
made at Charleston by Gov. Seabrook,
of South Carolina, to Mr.. Vcnablc, OF
North Carolina.
Il trust it will not be considered de-
parturc from the strict rules of proprietv
to say oan honorable member of Con
gress, before me, that the Palmetto State
owes him debt of gratitude, which at
her bidding, and in obedience to my own
feelings, | am imperatively summoned, at
this time, to liquidate in part. From the
first day of Mr.. Calhoun's protracted i'll
ness to the moment when death achieved
his victory, you, Mr.. Venabe, were
rarely absent from his bedside. With the
anxious solicitude of devoted friend,