The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-03-11
Late from California /.

charged 81 A
dseoun, made % those who advertise BY the year.
Late from California.
The British steamer Avon arrived on Friday
morning at Mobile Point from Havana She
brought seventeen passengers from California who
came on the steamer Georgia from Chagres to
Havana. The following items we clip from the
San Francisco papers of February 1st
AS yet there is indication of any diminution
III the yield Of the mines. All accounts agree that
an Immense region Of country, rich as any hereto
lore discovered yet remains to be worked. A gem
tleman OF intelligence recently returned from tour
throughout the northern diggings, states that the
miners are now averaging more per day than they
were in the summer months, and it is generally
believed that the tremendous flow of water through
the ravInesi gulehes and streams this winter will
change the surface Of the earth about the old Dig
glngs so that new and rich deposits will be found
throughout the country that had been worked over
The water was receding from Sacramento City
on the 2lst January and business was again revi-
wing in that place. The flood had left small depos-
ties Of gold in the streets. The Placer Times
says: We gentleman yesterday who had
washed out quite pile on the bank of the Sac
ramento, not over quarter of a mile from our
office. Large numbers have been washing gold
within the limits Of our city during the week
without any great degree OF success, however, this
tNiti' DSAiIS poO iciuott 1IOIi mountains.
Stockton correspondent of the Alta California
says that Sonorian had found in the Stanslaus
river piece of gold weighing % pounds ounces.
1t contained four pounds of quartz rock.
The health of San Francisco was not very good
Cases of sickness and death had greatly increased
since the rainy season set in.
new city, called Yubaville, has been laid out
on Yuba river.
FTst
The Alta California says it believes there is no
place in the world, with the same amount of popu-
laton, where crime existed less than in San Fran
cisco at that time.
In San Francisco alone, the banks OF the gam.
bers contain not less than one million of dollars Of
coin, about one-filth the amount usually held BY
all the banks in the city of New York
A meeting held at San Francisco favorable
to the establishment of Independent line of steam
communication between San Francisco and Pana
ma to connect with the line of steamers of Howard
| Il Son, Of New York. Subscription books were
opened the capital being limited to 81 900 900
| More than two-thirds of the reqnired amount had
been already subscribed.
Distinct shocks of an earthquake were expert
enced in San Francisco on the 18th of January.
From April u, ls49, to January 20, 1850, inclu
sive, the passenger arrivals at the port of Sar
Francisco, were as follows:
american. % 81 AIaes...... $40 Females
Foreign n...-.......,......s,f2O . ...... 500 g
Total 39,sss. a8,467 ian
| No proposals were put in on the day advertised
for the State Loan. Several individuals attende,
at San Jose on that day, ready to advance tn
amount required in a mode of contract and agree
ment different from that advertised. Meantime,
| appears that there is bill before the Legis ltur
for the issue of State scrip.
| The fair weather had enabled large quantities o
supplies to reach the mines, that provisions
| were abundant every where, and selling at very
moderate rates Flour by the quantity brought 2:
cents per pound, pork from 81 to so, and potatoe
81 so per Dbl.
| No little excitement manifested by the tra
Of the captain Of the ship Angelique, recently ar
| rived. The suit was brought by the celebrate,
Mrs. Farnham, for damages sustained in eonse
quence OF the captains having left that lady ashor
at Valparaiso, separating her from her children b
bringing them to that port in his ship; and also TO
inducing her servant, white girl, to marry tn
black steward. There was considerable scanda
introduced during the trial, but it was only prove
that Mrs. Farnham was little too much of an ad
vocate for the rights of women, and had a penchan
N''NAS'"P
| We take the following letter from the San Fran
cisco Journal Of Commerce and Daily Bulletin, G
February LIST:
| AUBURN, Jan. Is, 1850.
ON II Since you left | have made sevel
hundred dollars, and our lead is yet rich. Wher
| we dug all summer in the bed, the banks hav
| proved extremely rich. H. ~ H. are averagin:
one hundred dollars per day l.. seventy-five dol
| lars G. one hundred dollars; and all along dow
| about three to five ounces to two men per daH o.
the bank of our old lead boy knocked out fagge
| chunk OF sixteen ounces. G. and had it in on
hands. | think shall get about $500 by March
| if lucky as | am now. This day two men took fou
hundred dollars out of three pans full of dirt
ravine. 1t is literally thronged. The whole roa
which runs by it is being dug up"
ANOTHER STEAMER FOR THE PAcIFIc.-Gec
Law, Of New York, has purchased the new steam
ship Republic, which has been running as a packe
between Baltimore and Charleston The price pai
for her, it is said, was $135,0O0. She is to sa
Immediately to New York, whence she will pre-
coed to Panama, to run in connection with tn
steamships Columbus and Isthmus, comprisin
Mr.. Laws line between Panama and San Fran
cisco, to connect with his line the Atlantic side
the Georgia, Ohio and Falcon =, :, :. =.
Messrs. Hnlrla--a-to Asplnwalls racine llhe
steamships is now composed OF six-the California
Panama, Oregon tennessee, Y nlcoIh anu S"it
lima On the Atlantic side the Cherokee and Phi
ladelphia connect with this line.
Messrs Howard & Sons Pacific line consist
the Sarah Sands and New Orleans the Atlant
line of the Empire City and Crescent City.
By the first of May the line of steamers on Il
Pacific side will be in successful operation, al
during the summer and thereafter we may look {
arrivals every week.
Besides the above, number of other steame
3 have left New York to trade in the Pacific Ocea
, Their names are the New World, Gold Hunt'
West Point, Hartford, Eudora, Sea Gull, W..
: Pease, Tobago, Spitfre and Chesapeake
4 The FORREST DIVORCE CAsE-The groun
upon which Mr. Forrest petitions for divorce, Q
! said to be-that his wife has so far violated the ms
t riage contract, as to constran him to this appe
that there is entire incomPatibility of temp
and feelings, and utter impossibility of happin'
= to either party in the continuance of the matrin
=, NAL connection and that his wife has commit
y criminal acts inconsistent with the dignity and
r rity of the marriage state.
IN |
8. yTTANTED-By the advertiser, a SITUATION
Of wv BooK-KEEPER, or OUTDOOR CLERK IN Conn