Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1850-11-09
From California
ARRIVAL OF THE 0HI0l!
Largo Amounts Of Coil

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The steamship Onto arrived Ut New
Orleans on "Wednesday .faefaiuy hast, ifttl
New York. mn Charleston. Savannah aas
Havana. The Onto brought tie iphiil
600 passengers, aud 100000 gold dust
D We condetisG ilrr naWs ff1lu oar Now
Orleans exchanges. Tho news from "a,
FRANCISCO Il up 10 Tie let October.
Speaking Of intelligence from The hiiifs
tie tlau lTtnttf#cD Herald remarks.
1.-THE Intelligence front the mines Is d
IN mixed description. Wherever thr
dreams have been damned. d plentiful
yield If rod has baeH the result bul
~peyeral 81 The dame llayF recently riyHt
" way, iii consequence of the rising Of tho
70 waters. aud the labor of months has tllt-
" been rendered f~fuitlsaa, Collaborating
quartz CONTINUES to ht discovered. and tlia
ia the anI win form tln sfnat ra=ouren 81
0,niners, when HiifInee gold tiils.
The people Of California were highly
delighted al their admission Into The tiuioa
The State elections were to bs held Oh
The 7th Of October, Partisan feeling runs
high, aud candidates for lie diln7nto Offices
were thicker tllau leaves OF The forest,
pa Francisco continues TO improve,
md the news generally IN favorable.
The great fire IN San Franchises, oil tie
10th Sept. eatised a loss Of some lit,n-
,lreds Of thousands, but The "bufiit
n~sljhtriet " Ia O nearly rebuilt, and mere
substantially aud durably
The accounts Of atIftfines OH tho plains
among the emigfpnta are truly l,ertib!ep=
The Sacramento Transcript contains two
letters from Capt. Wade. ono written at
Great Meadow. Humboldt river, the Other
dated 1'ruelee River, September u,
lie states that the II a1itr Committee
have not IL single pound Ut llDilr tnst of the
mountains that he entered tho Desert Oh
tho 7th inst met two mru who had giveti
up to die from starvation same day two
,iieh died Of starvation on Carson Desert
that those will, wagons have no food but
their poor exhausted animals that foot.
man fubHiat on the purified flesh Of the
deai animals along rtle rpnd. atid dihenap
aud death are consequently sweeping them
down Tie cholera made it, appearance
oil the Stt, aud eight persons ont Of q
Hmall tain died Of 1t III three hours
The Indians take every advantage to stnal
their animals. aud thus many arc IeIt more
than piN hundred niles beyond the settle
meuts, Fighting between tlleui and the
emigtnhts occurs about daily. Twenty
thousand pcfsatis ire yet beyond taa
Desert, of which number fifteen thousand
ARE now destitute Of all kiuls Of pro-
visions, yet the period OF their ett'Hteat
suffering has not arrived, F" t" 1t will b.
impossible FOR ten thousand Of this nun
her to reach the mountains before the
COMMENCEMENT Of wintet
Active governments for The re'iefofth these
unfortunate people have been tct OH loot
In California, but II Ia feared Chat thott.
saul. will p,siea h7Iore relief eau reach
thelS 1'ol l'elp the poor, starving elns
%ierant'
The grnnirou Of Henry CiNr-tlaury
Clay nnfalie-wes ~feceutly druWneJ III
The >acgnur@to, lie body has boaD 70.
covered,
Speaking Of mintnt, the Gallons
Courier rcmarta:
Tar NtStN,l KrutoNay--,l good deal
ot god Il pouring Into tiigtltN notwitit.
suaulin tIle many failures IN the dntumtne@
operations. There win, ia doubt, I've u
steady stream of the orc flowing ia upon
us all winter The Cd idea tnt rea
much cni rs done IN tho wet season i,
getting gold, has exploded, The day dig
p,nga have undoubtedly furnished n much
lager proportion Of tho metal than the .
wet, vast number OF the miners lave
made, " operations for the couliu. winter,
Ivy erecting comfortable log huts, aud stof.
ing them with provisions aud we con. T"
tdently anticipate thai those who have y
acted thus prudently, Will reap Il rich :
harvest. 4
The Courier estimates the present poptl.
lation Of California at 200. 0oo.--Agfieula q
'"re is beginning to be Thought Of which l.
in n n,aSt aSr,tlsnf wtrn