The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1850-08-27

Affairs in California.

Since our last edition Tor the states inc
overland immigration has commenced arrIv-
ing, and some hundreds are already in onr
midst who left the Missouri river this spring,
1t is expected that much suffering will be
experienced on the route among the rear par
ties, but no serious disasters can be very
reasonably apprehendeI, if assistance is SEM
this foil to the eastern side Of the Sierra Ne
vada, as was done last year.
The earliest arrivals were pack companies
who came through in about two months
and experience has demonstrated that fol
parties who are not bringing families, pack
ing is the safest and surest mode of reaching
California. The immigrants of last yeal
(and We suppose will the present season.
suffered greatly from their vehicles being
too heavy ard cumbersome for such long
journeys. The very liehtest carriages have
proved the best means of conveyance in ey
cry train where they have been used.
New YoRK, Aug. 81.
The Crescent CITY made the outward pas
sage in nine days. She left Chagres on the
18th. She brings no gold on her manifest
but the passengers have a considerable a
mount.
On Sunday, the 18th. lat. "a, lon p, the
Crescent City passed the steamer Empire
CITY, from New York for Chagres.
FRoM THE IsrnMUs Steamer Falcon
with California mails, left Chacres for Hay,
ana Oh the l2!h inst. at | o'clock A. NJ.
The steamship lslhmus, from San Francis
co al July, arrived at Panama on the sth
She brought GO passengers and about $780,,
600 in gold dust.
The steamer Eudora arrived at Panams
on the I'd inst. The Northerrer left there
for san Francisco on the 27th July, and the
Sarah Sands on the 2lst. The steamer Ilar
vcy Gleason was on her first trip up the
Chagres river when the Crescent City left
for Chaercs, Parties who had seen her on
the way were confident of her success.
From California the dates are to the l7ih
two days later.
, Gov. Barnett has refused 10 call an xtra
session of the Legislature, He was expect
al in San Francisco, on his way to Sacra-
niento city.
Vhe Pacific News gives the following a:
the\fnancial condition of California Recap
i~tuliIion Revenues from poll tax, $3.50 900
from half Of one per cent, tax ON two mil
lion dollars property, | 600 900 from for
eign miners tax, $50 900; from auction sales
25, 0OO-toial, ono million five hundred TWEEN
ty,ive thousand.
Liabilities and expenditures of the State
from its organization to the 31st dav of Dee.
1850, inclusive of every kind, total, 500,
600: leaving a balance in the State treasu
rr a. The meeting Of the next legislature o
ss2j,oO0.
The above calculation does not embrace
one million Of dollars collected by officers o
the port. on import duties, which, it is con
sidcrrd. belong to California.
The News SAYS In view of the ~fnancia
resources Of this State, indicated by thes,
facts, we feel authorized in saving to Tn
world. come veal come wo, every dollar o
her Indebtedness, to the last farthing of prin
ciple and interest, will be promptly redeem
ed, and there is no such word in her vocab
ulary as reputation.
Information has been received at Stock
ton, that a party numbering about twelv'
have been found dead in a ravine neal thu
Double Springs where they had been dig
ging. From their appearance. death wa
caused by the slabs they had received AM
from the scarcity of any article OF value up
on their persons, the superstition is, that tn
poor fellows had been robbed Of what the,
possessed.
In relation 10 the general stale of affair
ut these Southern mines, the Stockton Jour
nal of July 18th, remarks A most alarminI
state Of things exists on n portion Of til
southern mines around Sonora. Scarcely
night passes without n murder.
When the miner retires to his repose, h
knows not but that the morrow S sun wi
find him the victim of the assassin's knife