The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1850-04-19
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BY THE sTEAmER cHERoIsEE. {

Ifornia, WHICH will be found Of genera
Interest The most reliable account.
fiom the mining regions will be received
Iaftor we have heard of the operations
Iof the dry season, Which has but lately
set in. ''0 p q
We commence with the following glow
ling picture frointhe Pacific News, which
lno doubt gives us the sunuysiJe. ldi II
"TheIe are now about l20. 900 inhab-
l;ants in California. mostly male adults;
1t can well sustain population Of mil
lions, and even in the mineral regions
several hundred thousand men could rot
occupy the whole ground. ytst lae
rIhose people in the States who are
anxiously looking for the California.bub-
Bile. " as they are pleased to callilhe ex,
traordinary Ito them) condition IF things
here, consequent upon an entire and
radical change in the standards of value,
will be doomed to much disappointment,
But single failure.has ever been known
to have occurred in'San Francisco, which,
in a business population of thousands,
andtransaction Of hundredsuf millions.
cannot we'll be paralleled elsewhere
.Ihe weather at this time is really
heavenly--the roads are in perfect order,
teams are arriving and departing by the
hundred every day--our streets are
Ithronged with traders and speeulators4 :
town proprietors and their agents, to say y
nothing ofthe innumerable senoritas, who
rival in beauty aud attractions, all the
glorious descriptions of their venerable
mother Eve.' btav 3.4' ierssq t'i
That during tHirly.two- days, from
January lst to February lst, there were
mailed and sent from the post Office Of
this city, to the States, sixty.seveu thou.
sand letters, and FIVE thousand newspa.
pers. Duriag the same period, mails
from the States were brought in blythe
Panama, containing twenty thousand let
ters for delivery and distribution here"
Washugton's birth day was ceIebrat-
ed very appropriately at San Francisco
by the California guard--a body organ
lied within few months, from among
the spirited young men Of the tertiary
They have built an armory costing $780,,
900, in which they gave an entertainment
on the 22d of February, which from the
accounts must have been quite brilliant.
--Myron c. Norton presided. '5s
The 9th regular toast was as folIows.-
Woman arms are always at hel
disposal" Cheers. t7e
The following are the salaries appoint
ed for the State officers by the General
Assembly: Governor. SIC, 900; Secre.
tary ofState, $1,000; ComptrolIerof State
5000; Treasurer of State, $4,000; At.
torney General, $1,000; Surveyor Gen.
eral. 81 900; ChiefJustice and each As.
sociate Justice, $4,000 each; District
Attorney so 900; State Translator,SS, 900;
Governors private Secretary. 1000.
niThe members of the bar in San Fran
cisco have held meeting, and resolved,
that the Legislature he recommended to
adopt the simplest fui'ms of practice and
pleadings compatible with the common
law system. .~.sg I1 ~ ,
The Commissioners of the Mexican
Boundary Survey. on both sides. met at
San Diego on the 10th Feb, and agreed
to suspend operations ill 4th Nov. next,
-whenthey are to meet at Paso del Norte.
The disturbance betweenihe Ameri-
cans and Chileans on the San Joaquin
which created apprelleusions for the safe
ty of the latter Numerous class Of miners,
has been adjusted ra, ..ea..aa 5uuf.
The temporary loan bill passed the
Legislature on the last of January, not
withstanding strong opposition made to
it. The bill requires The treasurer.r as
soon as practicable, to issue bonds ofthe
State. in sums Of one hundred, Two hip1.
dred and twenty-five. Eve hundred and
one thousand dollars, and not exceeding
in tho aggfe gate three hundred thousand
dollars, payable to the order of the Gov
ernor, six months after date. with three
per cent interest thereonper month. 1t
also provides, that bonds shall be receiv-
able for all taxes or other State dues.
i Anindependent steamship line from
San Fraucscolo Panama, was to be es
lablished Immediately. Four steamships
of2.000 TINS each, were to be procured.
and two of the stockholders were to pro-
ceed to the U. S. for the purpose, They
are to CONNECT with the Crescent City
Company ON the Atlantic side. The cap.
itabsf the company is placed at one mil.
lion OF dollars. q CSC - % scaf ai,.i is
The food has retired from Sacramento
city,andreal estate, whichmaintained its
price whileunder water, has. advanced in
price as the watershave retired. Fla
All the towns on the Sacramento and
tributaries arc reported 10 be thriving,
particularly the new towns ofVubayille,
Vernon. Fremont, and survey recently
made on Feather river, near isrmouth,
called Nicolaus. .i- = i. r..-o g-aw E
The quantity Of gold dust in the hands
ofthe miners is large; and they were tax.
ing advantage of the Improvement in the
weather to bring it down to San Francis,
CO. The succeeding steamers, il is ex-
Pected, will bring larger amounts than
have yet been sent 10 the U.s.. 49,,
The steamers on the rivers were doing
a very profitable busness-;the Senator 5
passage and freight list, to and from Sac
ramento city, ampunling at times to $l5.-
900, aud occupying but TWO days, Price
OF passage $25; distance one hundred and
thirty miles ''fNt