New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-10-18

We 81 81 per ID. Tor hlSeSc ana INC StihlS
aer bottle for Cider Twenty dollars buys us
YespectabIe pair of boots in San Francisco-there
are none fit to kick dogs with here and Tor three
dollars We can get n chicken as is chicken
Still. mid all these advantages we live IN hopes
Of something better VIII humanity ever be
satisfied remain yours, NAahlhea'
Life in the Diggimgs- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Advice.
Correspondence of The Tribune.
On MIDDLE FORK California, Monday, Aug. %
The steamer Of Sept. is too near her departure
to leave me time to write lengthy letter and Sc
cure the opportunity to send by her by tins man
YOU will learn the particulars OF one or two events,
the only ones Of Importance that have transplred
since nv last under date OF the Goth OF July. The
troubles at Sacramento City among conflicting
claimants of the land, and the serious conse-
quences growing out Of them is the most lmpor-
tant Removed 80 miles from the scene OF the
disturbances and obliged to receive reports eX-
aagerated about in the ratio of the distance, can
not RELY on any Of the conflicting accounts re-
reived, and will leave those who are on the spot
the duty of giving the particulars.
We have also learned that serious conflicts have
taken place in the Southern mines between several
thousand foreigners Chilians, MeXicans, French,
etc and the Americans, originating i'll comolha-
ton among the former to resist, en- mtSSe tue col
lection of the tax on foreigners and by an attempt
Sf the latter to assist in enforcing IT. nave seen
persons from there but the accounts are crude ana
unsatisfactory. That a fight has occurred and
many lives have been lost, including officers OF the
Government, there seems to be no doubt when
party is III the ascendant is not known nere-the
foreigners being ten to one III NUMBER however,
must leave Them for the time beng, masters Oh
the field These occurrences make 10 impression
thnn does the news from
home that the President OF the United states IS
dead that Philadelphia is hall destroyed by hre
and that the Cholera Is AGAIN dcpop0athS inc
West On stating these circumstances to gold
digger he stragltenS up i'll his hole, looks dubious,
leans on his shovel handle halt minute and says,
"Ah when did he die What part OF the City is
it i'm How many have died IN Cincinnati =
and before you can answer the running question
he sticks in his shovel again as hard as ever
The various dams on this stream are III a state
of forwardncss, but there is only onc-that next
adjoining ours-that is being worked. 1t belongs
to five Young men from Salt Lake. George Boyd,
from Pennsylvania, is the principal. About S24,OO
were taken out of it last Fall, aud the same party
have continued here to work it this season, Some
Is or 90 are at work, some at the halves and some
hired. Yesterday, Sunday, they Obtained $1,000
or over and will average from $500 to $500 per
day for some time to come
Considerable trouble exists among us on account
gi UuE buChiLS VIC W HtCi ul'OA WV
next above. This is the case with some halt
dozen above us, but generally spirit OF accom-,
mediation exists, and nothing serious is feared
from this source. Our company, IA III number,
have nearly completed ourworks. We shall dram
400 wards of the river. To accomplish 1t we nave
been obliged to buy coo yards OF duck, paying Tor
it 200. w have had hundreds OF tuns OF rock 10
move, much of it being blasted out, strong stone
wall to build the whole length and another light
mortar wall to lay inside OF it half the distance.
BY the lst OF September we shall know whether
we are each to have q moderate fortune Tor our
hard work, or be obliged Tor want OF means to
pay our passage III the LIST December steamer, to
stay another weary Winter III these detested
diggings
friend Van Allen of Stockhrdgc, Michigan, died
ON the 9TH inst. of Typhoid Fever. On the same
morning John Harrison, an athletic ElShman late
ly from Texas, was shot near our camp by the &C
cdental discharge OF his own pistol the ball enter
ing near the heart, and causing almost instant
death We buried the two in the same grave
Last night George w Shepherd, young man
from Paris, Monroe Co. Mo Il tanner and curricr
by profession also died in company after two
weeks illness OF Typhoid Fever. He had Just ar
rived over the plains, and worked TWO weeks
While am writing his body lies behind me, ready
For the sad burial accorded to those who due m
California In this connection, and or the ntor-
nation of his friends | may rs we'll state that
James Ferguson, another OF our party, from the
same place Us the latter, is also lying dangerously
i'll of fever and n badly nfamed leg some think
the latter was caused by injury to the ielaoral
artery by crow bar, IN pryinS rocks.
There are q host OF NJ. ID, $, so-caled, hereabout
but Judging from their practice and Its effects, |
think they are about rs we'll deserving Of the ap-
pendagc they have stuck 10 their names as many
of our d, y. 5 at home-thcir divinity is sick and
aecdS doctoring so does the physic Of our Calltor
MIA doctors. .4p,0poS: What do you think of pro
fuse bleed letting IN the case OF fever with already
two or three days start and the patient greatly
reduced mstreugth by a long journey and constant
and unchecked diarrhea
Could give you and the public trle DaSuer
reotype transfer ot the real aspect OF California tc
it would put an almost instant termination to the
insane rush OF cmigrantS to this country
1t is rumored that a large number OF the newly
arrived via the plains, on learning the state OF
things here. have made short turn N the road,
and are making the best of their way home again
Ii is the wisest coarse. Any quantity OF destitute
persons can be hired for two or three dollars per
day and found. Some say dollar and a hat
Duty to my race, ii not a higher duty To God and
conscience, requires me to declare my conviction,
that the gold discoveries in California have been
the greatest curse that could have fallen upon our
nation. Yours very respectfully
p s Dr. Hurd says a young man died at his
house on the evening Of the 22d, without leaving
any clue to his name. He came !0r medical as
sistancc, and had been only lew hours IN the
house AT gambling table ut Spanish Bar on
Sunday, person WAS shot dead IN q quarrel; his
pane co0ld not learn, a friend from Green
woods Valley says there are great many SICK
theFe OF fever and erysiPeias, and that they are