The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1850-09-13
LATER FROM CALIFORNIA.

hIa' together are said to bring gold 10 inc
amount of $4 100000. The news is any
thing bdt cheering, The following Jet
ter. under date Of August /, to the New
York Commercial Advertiser, gives an
outline of the news: flt
The Panama sails this evening. with
$50 passengers. There were also large
number Of applications for berlhs, which
could not be Supplied. The anouat of
gold dust sen, by the steamer is large,
nearly two millohs Gf dollars on freisht
and in The hands Of passengers. Messrs.
Adams 81 Co forward S3l 900.
The ne ws from the mines is somewhat
discouroging. The rivers are Yet too
high to work advantageously, and ravines
have not dried up. Companies of min
ers are at work turning the rivers through
out the gold regions, and We may expect
good re ports from them in the course of
another mouth. Claims on the Yuba so
teet square, have been sold as high as
So 600.
The troubles at the southern mines,
particularly in the neighborhood of So
nora, still continue. The accounts of
the murders daily committed are really
frightful. and the end is not yet. The
Mexicans aud Chiians will be driven
from the diggings, and armed forces have
been organized to carry such proceed
ing into effect.
At the Mormon Gulch the foreigners
have received formal notice to leave in
one week. The fact is settled that the
Americans aud foIeigners cannot work
together in harmony-andi if either par
ty must succumb. the side to which A.
merican sympathy will be given cannot
s be doubted.
+! There are those who trace all these
disturbances to the foreign mining tax,
(S20 dollars per month"; and, as conse-
r quencc. wherever they had good claim
they were driven away by individuals
who urged the non payment of the tax as
/, an excuse fol such proceedings.
Murder of Americans followed, and
the offence was charged to the Mexicans
and South Americans without attempting
to designate the actual perpelrator. The
fact has been proved that among the re.
cent immigrants from Mexico came many
ofthe highway robbers of that country,
and am disposed to believe that most
/ of the rohberies and murders were com
mlled by them. The chief Of one of
, these guerilla bands is now in prison in
[ this city. r.-'
/ OVERLAND IMMrGRATIoN.- The accounts
r from those passing over the plain, are
stiff worse. The following will be read
> with thrilling interest:
A meeting was hgld at San Francisco
On the 4thofJuy,to devise means to re-
ieve the suffering of the immigrants then
Is coming over the plains A letter signed
- by number of the ciizens, urging the
g mayor to call his meeting. says:
). Information Of u direct aud reliable
:, character has reached us ofextraordinary
suffering among the overland immigrants
Several, who arrived few days since at
Sacramento Cuy. state that they saw fif-
D. teen or twenty dead bodies along the
H. road. These came to their fate from star
u vation. Provisions gave entirely Out, and
Is the only subsistence now left To the i'm
o. mense train still onthe way are mules aud
horses. The grass have given out also
3, aud even the mules aud horses, their
| only hope, are dying
Is The following is an extract from let.
N ter in the Sacramento Transcript:
The number on the plains is variously
estimated from $4,000 to 100000 souls
,f destined to this Ell Dorado, the one hal
r. of whom will not reach here without suf,
is iering. and the one quarter without sub
,e sisting On their animals, or enduring star
:. valion. have seen hundreds, more
,r than $50 miles on the other side of The
n. Sink Of Mary's river, that were out o
Y provisions, 0r had but few pounds tc
10 sustain miserable and wretched exist
10 ence, with animals that could never reach
III the desert by reason of the scarcity o
pr forage.
10 Mary's river is six or seven feet highe
~ than was ever known to be be fore, The
N bottoms, where the only feed grows, arr
II. almost entirely under waier.-Not beinl
10 able myselffor several days to get gras
ii on this side Of the river, hired some In
IN dans for SIS 10 swim across and foa
er some over to keep my animals from per
IS shipg. Had | been entirely destitute o
49,. means, as thousands are, would hav
suffered in that particular in the sam
* manner From this circumstance alon
IS. it may he possible that thfee.four,hs q
IN. The animals now in the plains must peris
"a. of hunger, and the imm grant, with hi
no scanry fare, must foot it till life itself be
comes burhen.
ic Those who started late will fare sti
oe worse; as the seasun becomes warmei
no feed less aud provisions shorter. | sa,
er one nun with two small boys. l20 mile
8. beyond the sink, who had left his wse
,y on and lost all his animals but one, an
all the provisions he had was three or fou
n pounds of rice; another with his wife an
,rn children, | overlook seventy FIVE mile
es. beyend tine sink, with four horses thl
were just able to mnve with the empt
,ut wagon, the wife walking ahead, in III
,le burning ssnd aud scorching sun to reliev
,rv the poor laden animals, that were de-
nd tined never to see the sink. saw q
er. the road side, where slices had been tai
Of en- out of dead horses and mules. TO al
IN. pease the knawing appettes of imm