Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1851-10-02
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steamship liliuOiSs Hh'rs4 f,~ =
folk on Wednesday, are to the 18th oil
The Illinois brings 81, ,l3s. .9s4 in gold
dust on freight, and s25o,0oo in hands
of passengers.
The splendid steamer North America,
arrived at Panama, in 81 days from
New York, and 10 days from Valparai-
SO, being the quickest voyage ever
made.
Since the sth July, Valparaiso had
been visited by succession of storms,
doing much damage to the shipping
The Chilian government advertises
for loan of S3O0,O00 for the compile
ZION Of the public stores.
The rails are laid on the Copiapo
railroad, distance of 26 miles. The
track is spoken Of as excellent.
CALIFORNIA ITEMs.-The news from
California is not important. Every
thing is going on smoothly, and the
miners are doing good bu .iness.
The indians from all parts of the
upper country are assembling at Yuba
City preparatoryto TO their annual jubilee,
Steamers are running without difficulty
between Sacramento and Marysville.
There was a row at Yuba city be-
tween some peaceful Indians and some
quarrelsome whites, but it went off with
out loss of life.
CRIME IN SAcRAMENTo.--The police
made 149 arrests during the month OF
July. OF these "a were charged with
larcency, 81 with disorderly conduct.
and AS with violation of CITY ordinances.
GoLD ON THE CoAsT.-We learn from
Major Graham that gold has been dis
covered in many places near Santa
Cruz. Many parties have been out
prospecting. and found gold wherever
they would dig, but found no place that
would pay.
The Sonora Herald of Saturday
states, that during the past week the
thermometer in the city has ranged from
SO to 104 degrees in the shade.
Mr.. N. ". Brooks, who had just ar
rived from Roses Bar, states that COM
pany of FIVE persons with whom he is
engaged, have recently taken out in
fourteen days 6fly-two pounds of gold
The Nevada Journal states that the
Gold Hill Mining company. at Grass
Valley, is clearing in its quartz opera
tions between eight hundred and one
thousand dollars per day.
A difficulty occurred at Nevada on
Saturday, between Alexander Brown
and miner by the name of Smith,
which resulted in the former shooting
the latter. Sunday morning, when the
stage left, 1t was feared that the excite
ment would lead TO serious results,
many of Smiths friends having decla-
red they would hang Brown. The
wounded man it was thought would die,
Captain E. K. Kane has declined
accepting the nomination of his South
ern friends as Governor of the State.
The steamer Benicia was sunk on
her trip up the Sacramento, on the I'd of
August, striking snag a few miles
above the junction OF Feather river.
The Journal contains the following
letter from Mokelumne, dated Aug. 8:
Last evening one of our most Valua
bic citizens shot three Chillians for in
sulting his daughter, and at one time, |
thought general rumpus would ensue.
But when the Americans perceived that
the Chilenos were arming, they evinced
an activity in collecting fighting fxens,
which astonished the others into peace
f1l, quiet department, No other ex
citement has resulted.
SUCCESSFUL MINING.-Within the last
two weeks, says the Sacramento Times,
we have heard of several cases of ex-
traordinary mining, by different individ-
uals. But that of party upon Bear
River, composed of eight individuals,
one of whom came to this city yester-
day, on his way to the States, exceeds
any that we have heard Of. Three per-
sons went up on Bear river early in July,
short distance below Steep Hollow,
where they turned the river and worked
twenty-one days. Upon dividing their
money, they had a little over twenty
two hundred dollars each. In the ag-
gregate, S7,6o7 30.
EARTHQUAKE.-The Nevada Journal
says that parties of emigrants who have
recently arrived. report that severe
shock of an earthquake was felt on the
Sd July, in the vicinity of the Soda
Springs, and along Bear river, some two
hundred miles this side Of Salt Lake.
The highly volcanic nature of that Sec
ton of country, and the numerous re-
mains of old craters, render if probable
that such convulsions are by no means
of unfrequent occurrence in that neigh
borhood.
The same paper says:
The first emigrant train by the
Truckee rout arrived in this city on
Thursday afternoon, in ninety days
from the Missouri river. The com
pany was from Galena, Illinois.
They came through with oxen, and
their cattle appeared in fine cordi-
iion. They report that they lound
plenty Of grass, and met with no
difficulty from the Indians. Theirs
was the first ox,leam that crossed the |
mountains the present season.
MINING OPERATIoNs.-Speaking
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