The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1851-01-17

0tr Through the kindness OF Judge
SKINNER, of this place, we were put in
possession of the Alto California, cfNo.
vember 80, 1850, paper published at
San Francisco, California, from which we
take the following items ofnews:
soxoRA.-The news from the "New Diggings" a,
Sonora is of the most encouraging character. Hun
dreds earning from sl0to s5u per day each and
many have taken out their "piles" In Il few days.
hole seven and eight ounces Of gold to the handful
aud they have cleared In three weeks $4,000. A
company Of Chillans found on Saturday last, Two
Jumps Of gold, unmiYed with quartz, one weighing
1876 ounces and the other 1l3 ounces.
SUDDEN DEArHs.-Our city has been shocked with.
In the last two days blythe sudden demise of several
work Of death has followed SO Immediately upon the
first notice of disease that have scarce had time
to breathe between them. Mr.. Niles, DR. johnson,
and Major Hardin Bigelow, who were all here with
us and in good health two or three days ago nre now
locked in that sleep which knows no morning. One
taken away in his youth, while hope and pleasant Ill.
tcipations were thronging along his path; one cut
down ere the smile on his Up grew sad, or the pleas
and the other. poor fellowi coming down through q
long series Of misortunes suerings and disappoint.
ments the last day. and them almost without warn
ing, the light Of the blessed sky shut out forever.
Manfuly had he done his duty. nnd manfully had
he suffered. Shattered and aimed In the public
vce-pierced with the murderous bullets and slashed
with the knife, which cut only to save-runed in
property, suffering in mind from his rsverses as well
as in body Ly wounds, and long twngng mutulations
without a murmur, he bore It ALL and--now he Is
free. His seemed hard fate and almost impossible to
reconcile with faiih.-Since writing the above we
have been told Of another equally sudden demise
TINT of Mr.. Oliver M. Marcyl Well at nine O'Clock
Yesterday morning. and in twelve hours passed away
from the living Let us pause.
IsIr TRur.-We have not the slishtest objection to
the following from the Sacramento Times being true.
but ut the same time doubt II, because we think IL is
the same pile ef gold referred to by last Thursday
f so the story has grown rather faster than the van.
kees cucumbers, the vines of shich out-run him and
tangled his legs and went to seed In his pocket beo
he could get his knife out The amount ofthe pile TO
which we referred was some $75,000.
Largest Yet.-Two gentlemen of our acquaintance
passed this city few days since on their way to New
York, with amount of geld which we believe to be
unequalled in the records ofindvdua in MI
ming They had with them dust to the value of Sl5n,
O00 all obtained during the summer from two claims
on the Yuba river. These lucky individuals are
Messrs Thomas J. and Daniel H. Ferguson, formerly
Of Danbury, Coin. They carried their treasure to
mountains, and 1t is probably the heaviest importation
that win be made for some time into that grand port
Of entry.
The Sacramento TIMES says:
The whole ridge Of the Sierra Nevada Is covered
with snow, The white mantle can be seen with the
naked eye from this city.
sEyKRAL BEARS "A gentleman Of undoubted vern
city who has lately come down from the upper sacra
mento country, gives an account ofn big hunt that
came off fortnight since. Major Redding and Capt
Freaner started out one afternoon, and during thu
might slew eight Grizzlies and brought the skins home