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"UNIrED We srAND--DIvfDED We FALL"

itants had taken refuge Oh board the shipping.
On the 9TH January, an act was passed at the
capital Of San Jose, and received the approval o
the Governor, "authorising loan of money, Il
pay immediate demands upon The treasury, unit
a permanent fund can be raised for the purpose.'
The sum to be raised is not 10 exceed two hun.
dred thousand dollars, aud for q time not less
than six nor more than twelve years, the whole
sum payable at the pleasure Of the State of any
time after the expiration Of six years.
The following is the latest intelligence from
the mines that we find in the papers Just come
to hand. II is from the Placer Times of the 5th
January. u.
We make the following extract, from private
letter written three miles below Hawkins Bar,
Tuolumne river, December 26.
"A portion of our party left here some Two
weeks ago for the Malposa 6iggins, where I
here they are making from eight 10 fen dollars
per day. They intend TO stay there during the
winter If provisions are not too scarce and high
Flour, pork, meal, bread, and coffee are one dol
lar per pound, and have been scarce. We have
not had any rain here for twenty days, but we
have seen snow about three miles, below Hawk
in's bar on the Tuolumne river. We are still
living in our tents, but intend soon to build
There have been several danming projects un-
dertaken here, but all have fallen through on &C.
count Of the rivers rising. Every thing is quiz
ct and peacible here now; few days ago rem
counter occurred between two Texans, in which
one of them was killed. Yours, &c., J.s. s."
TIE PLAcEa.-We have very little informa-
tion from the mines. From the Three Forks Of
American river we have no news, communica.
tion beirg nearly cut of from the bad condition
of the roads. Occasionally boat comes down
from Yuba and Feather rivers and we learn
that miners on those streams do good business
when the weather will allow them to dig. A
gentleman recently from the Mokelumne in
forms Us that he thinks operators on that stream
are averaging ten dollars per day. As it seems
10 be the opinion Of those best qualified To-
judge, tba. the rainy season is mostly, and over
that We shall have an early spring, miners do
niciled in our cities will he enabled to get 10 the
digsins Inuch earlier 10 the spring than was
generally anticipated, and a. they will probably
find the water on The streams recediDg, they
may reasonably expect fro'racied season for
operations.
A most shocking and dsplorabls affair, ss Il
termed BY The Stockton cosrssPendsnt ofthe Al
"a Ca Iiiornia. lstely occurred st the mines, g..
bout fifty miles from Stockton. II appears that
the Chilians working near the Calaveras were
notified to leave BY the Americans, the latter
giving them fifteen days grace. Al the end of
that time those who ren.sined were arrested and
fined an ounce of gold each, and further period
giving them for removal. On the 9th If Dec,
a party Of eighty armed Chilians made descent
on q colony Of Americans stationed at the Iowa
log cabins, killed two maltrested grsat num-
Der BY pinioning them with ropes, and dragging
them off with grsa. brutality toward Stockton.
After marching and countermsrching their
prisoners considerable dis,snce, the Chilisns
became alarmed at the prospect Of q rescue by
the other Americans in the vicinity, who had
begun to bestir themselves in behalf Of their
countrymen. 10 short the Chilisn party dsper-
sed, andth prisoners were Teieased; but eleven
Of the fomer fell into the hands Of the indignant
Americans, ard according 10 rumor, were ulti-
mately hung. The two Americans who had
been murdered were nged men, one Of them
leaving wife and ten children in the States, the
ether . wife snd five children. One Of them
was called Starr. originally from New York
but lately from Texas.
A letter from Stockton, dated December 3lst
has the following relative 10 the navigation Of
tie San joaquin.
Since travelling by land has been interrupted
alfths boats in Stockton have been purchased to
run up the San Joaquin. Beats which one
month sgo sold for from $50 to 800 are now
worth $500 to $400.
A whale boat, which arrived day or two
since from the Turlumne, met on her trip down
seventeen boats bound upwards with provisions.
This boat took 400 pounds from Stockton to a
place on the Tuolumne, fifteen niles above
Crescent City. The river 10 said to be full Of
scrub oak snsgs and ssndbar'. and caEnOt be
successfully navigated by stsamboats until clear.
ed. A City will undoubtedly be established
on tie San Joaquin, somewhere bstwesn the
Stsnilaas and ihs Toulumns-2robsbly on the
high hank opposite the latter river. The ground
rises gradually from The river for distance Of
eightesn miles, to the mountains, where there
are thousands Of wild horses, elk and deer. Il
viii be fine region for farming when the gold
mines are exhausted. Il is one hundred miles
from Sen Francisco, by land, and seventy live
miles from San Jose.
License L0,c in Wisconsin.-In Wiscon.
sin. Mrs. Leyeioy Keyser has recovered