The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-05-08

we sspposs the woFk OF erecting The varloul
buiidings, Offices. Us, 1t Vallejo will eoimence
! The proapects Of this State, -agrieultusaiIY
are, We believe, very promising.
i YaoM THE MINING DISTRICTS.
The Alta Californian says that the news from
the Gold Bluff il very favorable. A rich lead Of
gold had been discovered there, from which one
machine washed over 33 ounces Of gold in one
day. On another day $1,000 were taken out
The gold is found upon the bed rock, from two
to ten feet below the surface. One bucket OF
dirt yielded eight ounces; $l38 hid been taken
from twenty three pounds Of the surface sand
an average Of six dollars to the pound The
Warren, which arrived from the locality ut San
Francisco on the 2Sth of March, brought twenty
thousand dollars in gold.
The San Francisco STANDARD Of April says
We continue to receive cheering accounts
from all portions of the gold region. The Co
sumnes, Tuolumne, Calayeras, Mokelumne, Ame-
rcan, Feather, SCOTS, Klamath and other rivers
in the gold mining country, seud favorable ac-
counts The latest news from the region of San
Diego renders it certain that valuable deposits
of the golden mineral have been discovered there
by the Mexicans; and reports from the adjacent
portions of the State render it probable that the
mines there will be found much more productive
than has been supposed they would be.
| One Of the dredging companies, to which We
have heretofore referred as preparing to operate,
has mt last got to work. During week just
past the dredging steamboat Phoenix was set to
work for the purpose of testing the capabilities
Of the machinery, and the richness of the bed of
the river at that point, and the results Of the ex-
pertinent were yield of over one hundred dol
lars per hour.
| he quartz mining operations have also been
prosecuted with vigor and success. Some of
the veins are rich beyond all previous calcula-
TONS One Of these veins ut Nevada was sold
for $l3b,000, and the purchaser in a few days
thereafter had taken out Sl4,000, and dirt ready
for washing which would yield $4,000 more.
The rock in this vein is so friable that in some
places it can be crushed by the fingers.
The repeal Of the law taxing foreign miners,
| it was supposed, would have material effect in
increasing the receipts Of gold Large numbers
of those who had ceased working, on the objec-
lionable enactment going into effect, have now
resumed their operations at the mines or are
on their way to them.
| The Sacramento Transcript characteristics the
claim at Nevada City, known rs the "gold
tunnel" as the richest deposit of the metal in
California. About fifty thousand dollars have
been taken from it, and the claim has been sold
for $780, 900. The gold is deposited in kind
of decomposed clay, and is found thicky set
throughout this whole ven which appears to be
inexhaustible in depth, and from one to four
feet in breadth.
INDIAN AFFAIRS
Appear to be in more satisfactory condition.
A treaty had been concluded with the tribes
on the Touumne river, of which the following
sketch is given in one of the papers:
A location is to be selected on the upper por-
ton of the Merced river, in as eligible district
as possible, susceptible of cultivation, and as
near the range Of foothills as practicable. The
allotment will be made so as to allow about l60
acres to each family. They are to be furnished
with cattle, horses and mules, agricultural i'm
elements and seeds; with blacksmith and a
farmer, and other persons to instruct them in
the art of husbandry as practiscd by the whites;
also with schools. They pledged themselves to
till the land and maintain a perpetual peace with
the whites on these conditions, holding them
selves amenable to be established laws, and hav-
ing the privilege of obtaining redress from in
jures inflicted by the whites at the same tribu-
nails of Justice. They are not to receive any
bounty or annuity from the government, other
than that awarded them at the outset of their
new career.
The other two tribes have, it is said, sent
word that they will not treat, and in conse-
auence, Major Savage has been informed by the
commissioners that he is at liberty to take ac-
tive measures against them, and he will prob
ably at once commence operations.
Dr. Wozencraft, one of the commissioners
who had visited San Francisco to purchase sup
plies, left there on the 29th of March, to be
present at talk" which was to be held with
the Indians on the first of April. After the
treaty which was expected to be the result. was
completed, the commissioners would probably
separate, and pursue the objects of their mis-
sion in different sections of the country. Gen.
Smith had given orders for two companies at
Benicia, and one at camp Far West, to hold
themselves in readiness to form with Captain
KEYS command, three escorts one to accom-
parry commissioner to Los Angeles, one to the
Fresno, where Captain Keys is at present, and
one to the Trinidad and northern Indian coun-
try generally.
News had been received at San Francisco of
fight between the State troops and the Indians
on the San Joaquin.
The Indians made descent upon their camp
and stole seven mules The next day their
commander captain Kirkindae) proceeded
about thirty miles on foot, with acme forty men,
after the Indians, who fled to a ranchera in the
mountains, where a large body of Indians were
assembled The volunteers attacked them,
drove them from their position, burned their
ranchera, and killed number of the Indians
The Indians sent in n runner. asking for ces-
sation CT hostilities, and permission to take their
dead to burn their bodies They were informed
of the desire of the whites to make peace, and
enable them to provide for themselves without
plnndering the whites for subsistence.
They professed previous ignorance of the
design of the whites, and wise desire to come
and treat. They surrendered n number of pris-
oners, and were permitted to take possession of
their dead, on condition that they would come in
to the San Joaquin, near Washington, at once,
and await the arrival of the commissioners,
promising to bring in from two to six hundred
Capt. X says they killed ten Of the Indians and
wounded several, destroyed several tons Of
ierked beef and large quantities Of acorns.
The Indians, Apaches probably, had attacked
and taken possession of Tucson, the last town
in Sonora coming toward the ella river The
inhabitants not being able TO hold the place,