Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-10-26

impression entertained that the bars are too deem to be
reached by the present work. and that larger company
must be omed i any advantage is to accrue from the
On Saturday last two miners showed us pounds
Of gold dust part Of which they had dug during the week
preceding s the rate Of two pounds per day the Dig
sings near Murphy, called Douglass Flats, the Sanaus
The Pacific News notices the reception Of specimen Of
silver ore from the Southern mines. The lump weighed
twelve grains, and melting nothing Lost in weight
On refining i only two grains lost. 1t taken from
the region OF the Sonoran camp where party engaged
N digging race Tor stream running down from the
tain The gentleman who brought the ore said that there
was an abundance more Of it in the same locality.
In relation to the mining districts generally, the Pacific
News remarks:
From the mining regions although the accounts are con-
icting they are generally Of encouraging character
larger amount Of gold will be taken out this season than
during any former one but it will be divided among much
greater number Of miners with perhaps less per than
has marked the past Large fortunes will not be so frequent
but abundant yield will result perssvering labor The
quartz rock, particularly in the Maposa mines yielding
rich return, wlh an encouraging prospect for still greater
abundance when the machinery for crushing the quartz shall
be put into successful operation" ts5 III
gag MISCELLANEOUS.
There arrived at San Francisco from the ls of August to
the 18th September by sea- 594O persons, of whom 81
eaes The departures by for the same time were
4,672, all males
The contractors for constructing the evee Sacramento
city have given the requisite bonds and the work be
plsed in eighty days from the time Of the commencement
Wm g. CarmaD, formerly Of New York; died at San Fran
cisco under singular circumstances The Pacific News Of
September Is furnishes the following particulars: @
About three weeks since, be riding in the suburbs Of
the city and took hold of the twg Of tree and afterwards
supposed, rubbed hs face with his hand week sub
sequenty small tester appeared his upper lip, and as
continued to swell treated by the physicians boil
In the course Of ten days his head and face became swollen
to double the natural size the skin turned black and his
whole appearance painful Ia the extreme Before il was
discovered to be poison from the twg the lip had been ance
which rendered the matter still In this state he lin
gered until yesterday morning, when be died. During the
whole time be was sensible made his will and otherwise dis.
| posed of his business. I" Y ltta 5llia }eFr
Mr. HAnPER, from Washington, shot at the Msnposa
mines the I'd Of September by the accidental discharge
his pistol. qps @
The foreign miners a does not appear to succeed very
well revenue measure. The Sacramento Transcript
says ~ aa
Of Yuba and Suer counties have been very successful
their We have Just the deputy collector from
Yuba and he speaks very scoursgngy of the prospects
turning much into the State treasury. We
informed that Collector Richardson, of Yuba county, intends
resigning !" 3al 3st@ 4sfs tea3 . .a5..J s.t .,i a
The expedition which sailed in July last to the klamath
and Umpqua rivers has returned TO San Francisco II has
been asceraned that the Klamath and Trinity unite and
form the river which discharges its into the sea- la
tude Al 81 NORTH and that there river answering the
description Of the klamath, in 40 26 laid down in the
charts of Fremont and Wilkes
From this river the expedition visited the Umpqna, which
the found to have opening into the sea, Of nearly milk
in width, with three four fhoms Of water on tn,
bar and navgable about thirty miles up when opens into
| a rich agricultural district.