The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-11-07

There were three hundred buildings destroyed
by the fire of the 18th September The loss is es-
tImated at 100000 With the ndomilabe energy
characteristic of the citizens of San Francisco the
burnt district is being rapidly built up.
we snail not undertake to give in detail the news
from TIE Mines. The accounts given in the papers,
which are generally too flattering, perhaps are by
no means OF n discouraging character.
The property known as Howison's Wharf, is nut
up at lottery 1t is valued at 5000, 900. The tick
cts are sold at 500 each.
Politics are creating quite stir, in view of the
State election to be held there this MONTH The
democratic, wing and independent parties have
each nominated their respective candidates.
The last arrival from San Francisco brought the
melancholy intelligence of the death, by drowning.
of young Mr.. Durable, the grandson of Henry
Clay. His body was found and decently inferred.
Some articles belonging to him have been sent to
his grandfather, as mementOes ofhis favorite grand
child. Among these articles is journal, which
he had kept ever since his arrival in the country.
The pencil with which he wrote in his diary, was
nclosed in the book on the page where he had
written his last WORDS few hours perhaps, be.
fore he was drowned. His purpose was to write a
work on California A gold fnger.ring and the
on his person.
Oregon.
The steamship Panama, Capt David G. Bailey,
arrived at San Francisco the evening of the 29th
OF September sixty-lOur hours from Astoria, which
place she left the morning of the 9th She
broughta large malt for the States.
h1migraHtS.-The news from the immigrants
on Snake River is of rather a melancholy nature.
Some packers, who arrived at Oregon City about
the 18th of September, report about one thousand
wagons destined for Oregon Territory-that they
had passed this number of wagons between Fort
Hall and the Dalles the rear part of the California
emigration having changed their course to Oregon.
They report also great deal of suffering and dis
tress among them. They have been so long on
the road that they have generally exhausted their
supplies OF provisions many Of them have scarcely
been able to keep body and soul together. The
government from the Dalles post, has been quite
active in furnishing supplies. The early portion of
the immigration Jared much better, although they
were not met on their way, yet they could obtain
plenty upon their arrival at the post
TIE Umpgua River-We have received Csavs
the Oregon Spectator of Sept. 1877 cheering intei-
sence from the country lying along our southern
border, and particularly from the valley of the
Umpqua. We have no doubt but that the y,v is
now opened for the speedy settlement of that por
ton OF our territory. The question so long ag-
ated as to the practicablity of entering the Umpqua
from the ocean, has been satisfactorily answered,
IN the fourth day of August, the schooner Samuel
Roberts passed the bar, ard anchored in a verv
beautiful and secure harbor. The Umpqua is re.
presented as two miles wide at its mouth and as
gradually narrowing for distance of thirty miles,
wheTe at the head Of navigation, it is some four
hundred yards wide. The Samuel Roberts sailed
up to the head of navigation in six hours This
portion OF the river rests quietly in deep canon,
oeIng enclosed on both sides by high and precipi-
tous Lodges OF rocks. From the mouth OF the river
to the head OF navigation the country is valuable
Principally Tor its fisheries, for It's facilities for the
numbering business, and for the sand stone which
aoounds IN that region, and is said to be excellent
Tor building purposes. At the head Of navigation.
the valley commences to spread out, and widens
gradually until it is extended to those beautiful
plains so much admired as an agricultural and
grazing country. We doubt not that the Samuel
kobers will soon be followed by other vessels and
other immigrants, and our southern border will
soon abound with prosperous and happy popula-
ton. ff'
Astoria has been selected by the Hudson's Bay
Company, as the connecting link between the
ocean and river navigation This place is now the
terminus OF the line OF mail steamers one of which
arrives there monthly, introducing from a hundred
TO two hundred passengers each trip