North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-07-23
LATE FROM CALIFORNIA.

The steamship Brother Jonathan arrived A New
? York yesterday week, from Chsgres, bringing 22s
gold dust California 10 the anonn
of $460,oo0 57sie slEl& slig ai kHf ,ia8s4 aaoL
4 We copy from the Alta California of June i 4it
the following summary Of the past fortnight
"Since the sailing of the Tennessee some new
events of startling interest have occurred our COM
munly, and others of less note. ~.ll.s r, ~ Il.
l. The steamer Panama. with U. S. mails and ne ws
nine days later from the Atlantic, arrived the Isl
INST, IN 6 days and hours from Panama, having
accomplished The shortest passage ever made between
the two portsI lassa5si tl4szsT asi.sL sesa Id So @
\ Five men wer drowned, in San Pablo bay, on the
28th of May. Their names and former residences
were as follows: DR.. Reuben Knox, of ST. Louis ;
John Allen, of Burlington, VT; James F. Graham of
| North Carolina, nephew of Hon. VIM. A. Graham,
Secretary of the Navy =; Mr.. Davis, of Maine, and
| an Indian boy.
Newspapers are increasing in numbers and in diff
ferent sections. The San Diego Herald and the Los
Angeles Star have recently been added to the number
Several escapes of prisoners. from the City Hall
Station House, in this city, have taken place, giving
strong cause of suspicion that of the police
were associated with them and aided their departure
Quite an excitement occurred on the Sd inst. on
the occasion of the arrest of a by the name of
Benz. Lewis, accused of firing building Long
| Wharf. The Indictment quashed, the Grand
Jury having been illegally empanneed, and the pris-
oner was remanded to await the action of the next
Grand Jury.
The Indians have been troublesome in the south
ern section of the State. company of white men,
under Capt. Irving, reported to have committed
many outrages upon the Inhabitants of Los Angeles
Valley. The citizens volunteered and went in pur-
suit. But the last account received is that the Ind
of certain Mission have destroyed Capt. Irving
and his IL men.
Terence Beew McMannus one of the Irish Pat
riots whose escape from New South Wales had been
known here some time previous, arrived here about
the fifth inst, and has received cordial and
enthusiastic reception by all classes of commu.
nifty.
Crime had increased to such fearful extent in this
city, any totally had the Courts and Police failed
in melting out adequate punishment, that volunteer
committee of most respectable citizens has been
formed for protection. robber having been caught
in the act OF stealing was summary tried by hem
found guilty, condemned to death and hung the
night. ....
The Coroner's inquest upon the body of the exc
cuted man went extensively into the evidence con-
nected with the whole proceeding and In their YER
dict mPlicate the members of the Committee of Vigil
| lance the cause of his death. .".'--..
The Council have at length passed, and the Mayor
has signed, ordinance granting to AFRO D. Merri-
field the right of laying pipes through the streets. for
the purpose OF introducing water into the city from
| NJ ountain Lake.
Seven men were drowned at Parks Bar last week.
Their names are J. Stull, II. Modesburgh, Charles
| Cox, Mr.. Hodge, Samuel Miller, Jorigan, French
man, and Vincent, also French.
| The attempts to burn the city have been too nu-
merous recaptuIate, bold and malignant to al
low any other Interpretation than determined plan
to burn the city. But our citizens vigilant,
and wo to him who is caught in the commission of
| the crime.
! Large meetings have been held each day since the
execution of Jenkins on the Plaza. But they result
ed in nothing.
Reports from the placers and quartz mines gen.
orally favorable. But they should always be receiv-
ed with several grains of allowance. Rumor lives
in the family of the gold seekers.
Agricultural prospects very good Politics are
rather at jul in the State, but it is kind of omin-
Gus stiffness prefacing the onset Of two armies The
two parties have generally organized in the different
! Counties.
| of Ia,o baaD
exceptions of occasional high winds and stirring dust
| in This city.
The new Jenny Lind Theater, built by Mr.. Mcguire
since the late confagration, opened last night by
a part of Mr.. Starl's company. The same proprie-
has IN progress of erection another heaer of fine
dimensions, to be built Of brick.
The cnders, ashes and desolation of the last great
fire, have nearly all disappeared before the new build
ings and improvements, which have followed upon
the path of the fire storm, like the grass and heritage
which springs up again when the tempest has passed
away" .--...... ---..-....
The San Francisco Herald of the 18th June con-
tains the following account of the mining operations
for the past fortnight:
"The accounts from the mining region, both north
and SOUTH represent the operations being quite
successful for the last two weeks they were for
the month previous. There is activity at this
moment, and gold is probably got out Than ever
before at any period in the history of the California
mines.
! The various species of mining now pursued, are
washing on the banks of the various streams, dam
med up led off for that purpose coyoteing or dig
ging into the earth from one pocket to another on
| the rude practice of scientific cpe-tunneiling
the hills, system which has proved immensely prof.
tabe,-and crushing the aurlferous quartz, the sue
cess of which depends well on skill and machine
nv as on the richness of the The operation of
washing surface gold in the guches and ravines is
not as extensively pursued at first, nor is 1t by
any means profitable. The system of mining Is
now wholly confirmed to the northern mines.
| Quartz mining and the coyote principle obtain al
mos m
region are the most productive quartz mines yet
opened. Carson's Greek mine, situated about ten
miles from Sonora, and the Mercer Company's mine
have doubtless yielded more gold than any yet dis
covered. The Stockton and Aspinwall mines, though
worked mos, industriously and economically, have
wholly failed. If located in the Atlantic States,
where labor is cheap, they might prove oleraby re-
munerative, although that is questionable; here
they have failed altogether to pay expenses
Many veins ale being opened every day, and
machinery is being put In operation all over the
southern mining region, in Tuoumne, Caaveras and
Mariposa. Several veins will undoubtedly prove
very largely productive, and as the mining opera
tons extend, new leads will, be discovered. The
ledge of quartz in which the gold is embedded ex-
tends through the whole length of the State, and
even into Lower California Further investigations
pushed into the lower counties will develop new
veins of ore !; aud already in Los Angeles County
there is quartz vein of very great richness
In the county of Monterey there is very little min
ing enterprise, but mines of silver and copper are
known to exist and will in time the attention
of those having capital to work them The Carson's
Creek, Mercer and other gold mines in the lower
cou mites will be developed the full extent OF their
riches by those at present working them, and that