Hillsdale Whig standard. (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1846-1851, 1850-11-26
The Northern Mines.

A Correspondent of the Transcript, wri-
ting from Plaeerville, says:
Mining operations are going on in the lar
ger ravines around this place, and many
miners are doing well. A party who were
from the lead mines OF Wisconsin, struck
"lead' few days since, In rayine at an e-
ovation Of 900 feet above the level of this VAL
ley, and il has proved quite productive
Shafts have been sunk twenty and thirty feet.
and gold found on the rock Excavations
under ground we think will be carried on TO
a considerable extent. This is rich region.
Gold is found in nearly all the ravines for ten
miles around. and everything now indicates
that large population will settle here the
coming winter. Many are now engaged in
throwing up dry dirt to be washed when tho
rain sets in, and, from appearances, / should
think they will be well paid for their labor.
WATER RIsrse-DAMs BREAKINo.-Mr.
Aug. Elliott, who has just returned from q
trip to the mining region--among the tribu-
taries of the American River-informs
US that the waters of the streams empty
ing into the American River have ris-
en- considerably since the late fall Of rain. -
Many of those who have been engaged in
damming operations for the last two months
find all their labor fruitless on account of tho
rise. The water had just fallen sufficiently
10 test the beds of the streams, and in some
places profitable yields were being realized
when the rains fell. The dams all along
have been more or less injured, while num-
Der have been entirely swept taawy-thus de-
stroying every hope, so far as the river-bed
diggings are concerned.
News from the Plains-Starvation-C Chol-
era-Indian Depredations-2O,OO 900 Per.
sons yet beyond the Desert.
We are indebted to Hawley s. Co.'S. Ex-
press for the Sacramento Transcript yes
terday, containing two letters from Capt.
Waldo, one written at Great Meadow, Hum
boldt River, the other dated Turckee River.
Sept. Is.
He states that the Relief Committee have
not single pound of flour east Of the Noun
tains. that he entered the Desert on the 9TH
inst. met two men who had given up to die
from starvation; same day two men died from
on Carson Desert: that those with
wagons have no food but their poor exhaust
ed animals; that footmen subsisted on the pu
trfied flesh Of dead animals along the road.
and disease and death are consequently
sweeping them down.
The Cholera made its appearance on the
5th, and eight persons out of a small train
died of IL in three hours. The Indians take
every advantage to steal their animals, and
thus many are left more than six hundred
miles beyond the settlements, Fighting be-
tween them and the emigrants occurs al
most daily. Twenty thousand persons are
yet beyond the Desert, of which number ff-
-een thousand "are now destitute of all kinds
Of provisions, yet the period of their greatest
suffering has not yet arrived" at will be
impossible for ten thousand of this number
% reach the mountains before the commence
nent Of Winter"
From the Turckee to the head Of the Hum
'oldt the cholera is killing them off; the sick
the Turckee Station unable to pro-
iced. Capt. w. was about starting to trv
o persuade such as are from four to six bun
hundred miles back to return to Salt Lake.
He calls for 10000 lbs. of flour for the Sta
ion at Turckee and the same amount for
no lSummit. He says that those back Sow
'ral hundred miles oiu die by starvation un-
ess relieved.
We regret our inability to give as much OF
lis communications as we could wish. Ho
sks for contributions, and offers to the City
council his claim to $4,000 worth Of prop
rty, if they will forward that amount in flour
nd articles for the sick at that place. Can
lot something be done here to'save the lives
f these our countrymen and friendsl Many
f them are women and children, widows
nd orphans, their husbands and fathers hav-
ng died with the Cholera.
Alta California, Sept "a.