The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-03-26


dian Commissioners, is now along the waters OF
tho Fresno and Marposa, where the late dis
turbances occurred Every effort will be made
to secure treaties of permanent peace If un-
successful IN their mission, general war may be
expected on the Indians in the South
DECREASE OF CRIME.-H0rse-steali and
other crimes have materially diminished within
the two last weeks. Summary justice, known
as lynch law, has been the effective agent--how-
ever deporable the fact, it is yet true, that this
has done more to prevent vlanes, than all the
statutes Of the Legislature.
RAcING.-Ths has become quite feature
in Sacramento. Races occur daily, over the
course at the suburbs OF the city--full reports
of which appear in another place.
The STocK MARKEDLY reason Of the
central position of our city, she has become the
great stock market to supply every other part
Of our State. The sales are immense each day,
and may be quoted on some days ut from $20,-
900 to $4,000. No fair quotations can be
given, as prices vary according to quality or
fancy, from $50 to 5000 for horses and mules.
Working oxen from $50 to 800, and oxen for
beef, from 800 to $l75. The greatest decline
seems to have been in mich cows. Eighteen
months ago we saw milch cows sell at $500 to
$500 piece whilst now, they can be had at
from $50 to $l5O-very few commanding the
latter rate.
Our SALooNs-Our city can boast of large
and handsome saloons. They are brilliantly lit
up each evening, by large and gorgeous chande-
lers, having transparent droppings, and the
walls are decorated with attractive paintings
from the pencils of skilful artists. Full bands,
or choice musicians, are engaged, who discourse
music the evening long. Among the first class
may be mentioned the Orleans House, Ell Do
RADIO, the Humboldt, Lees Exchange and the
Oregon.
THE Cry HospIrAL.--For the past 8 months
588 patients have been admitted at cost to the
city Of 1915, 1856 90. Of this entire number, only
sixty-fv could be classified as city PATIENTS
We refer to another column which will give the
distant reader some idea of our mongrel popula-
ton.
Low WATER.-ln consequence OF the slight
fall of rain this season. our rivers are all low
But slight fall of snow has taken place on the
Sierra Nevada
| CHURcHEs.-There are seven places of public
worship in the city. The Baptists are about
erecting II building, and the Episcopalians con-
template doing SO in short time. The Catho-
lie Church has recently been erected, as also the
Presbyterian, and an addition has been built to
the Methodist Episcopal Church.
| THE MINING INTEREsr.-We have heretofore
been called on to send rather discouraging in
teiligence from the mining country. Not, how
ever, because there was an exhaustion of the
precious metal, but because of the disability of
the miners to separate it from the earth-there
having been so little rain, consequently an alto
gether inadequate supply of water.
Early last fall the miners left the river banks
and bars, and selected sites for the erection of
comfortable quarters, in what are termed {" dry
diggings," points which can only be worked
when there are copous falls Of rain. The mi.
ners went to work and threw up millions of
bushels of earth, containing millions of dollars
worth of gold dust. All of this labor, and the
the earth still remains unwashed, piled up along
thousand gulches, ravines, and flats
| Within few weeks large numbers Of miners
have abandoned their homes i'll the dry dggings
and the earth they had thrown up, and repaire
to various points along the water courses
There they are able to work the banks and bars
as all the rivers are lower now than they wer,
any time last summer.
|, The bulk of the miners have gone to the mine
, in the northwest, to the tributaries of tn,
klamath river, on the western slope Of the coas
range SCOTS, Trinity, Shasta, and Salmon
, rivers besides many smaller streams, are trbu
taries of the Klamath and have been represented
as possessing rich bars and banks.
Probably the most reliable of all kinds of min
ing is that known as the Quartz Within
month, a vast deal of machinery has been erected
for gri'Nng and crushing the quartz rock, and
as it is found in large quantities in nearly every
surface mining district, we have every confidence
that the largest fortunes are yet to be realized
not by the masses, it is true, but by those
who are associated in quartz mining companies
1t has been clearly demonstrated that all the
quartz bears more or less of gold, whilst some
Of it is highly metaliferous.
Another reliable mining operation is that of
dredging our rivers. Recent experiments by the
machinery on board of the steamer Phoenix in
the Yuba river, have fully demonstrated its en-
tire practicability. We hear of several other
steamers on which like machinery is about to
be placed So taking the quartz mining in the
mountains, and the river dredging in connection
there seems to be realization of the old song
Gwen scrape the mountains clean, my boys,
Well drain the river dry"
From the Daily Pacific .Ncs