The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-05-03

OFFICIAL JOURNAL
ne Councd Of the Second Muntclpality.
published Every Day-(Sunday Excepted)-
BY j. II. MADDOX a. CO.
OTrCr,,,,,NO. R3 ST CHARLES sTRKEr.
More OF the California News.

More OF the California News.
By the Alabama. from Chagres.
The United States steamship Tennessee, Lieut..
G. M. Totten, u S. ~. left San Francisco, April
l, with III passengers, and $500, 900 in gold dust
to Capt. Forbes.
The steamship Columbus left San Francisco on
same day, with lS0 passengers, and 81, ,2OO, 600 in
gold dust to H. Tracy
Both of these steamers arrived at Panama on the
18th inst.
BY these arrivals, San Francisco newspapers of
April were received in New Orleans May l.
The steamships McKim and Eudora were adver-
tised to leave San Francisco for Panama, also on
April /.
The steamer Gold Hunter the pioneer of the
steam line between California and Tehuantepec,
sailed on the 2lst March from San Francisco with
sixty passengers. Full arrangements had been
made TO forward the mails and passengers across
the Ishmus
The Gold Coin in San Francisco - There
to be bitter misunderstanding, or business of
misrepresentation about the quality of the coin
issued by some of the principal houses in San
Francisco Some of the coin has been denied the
full value that it represents when presented to the
banking houses, said to be favored by the U. S.
Assayer. The house of Baldwin 6 Co. present a
statement this subject, and to show that their
coin bears its true value, append this certificate of
competent Assayer:
.Messrs. Baidoin & CO.
ArseaGy to yoa distractions have asayed three pieces
a The result S"s ~ z and one of five dol
MI III W. shns Ss grams s q, 6 eara' and the
Mn w. xsss s ssss q asa'ed M oaats the u
The s. weighing ls3 grains asayed 81 7.ls c.ra the u
$. Mint valne of which is s5 lO.9m,
san Francisco March 49, s5i sssips'''y z y'p. p KouLua
difficulty had occurred at San Francisco
between the Collector Of the Port and the Acting
Postmaster in relation to the mails. 1t had been
reported to the Collector that many of the mail bags
brought there by the steamers, contained smuggled
matter, such as cigars and other kinds of liz ht
compact merchandise. The Collector directed the
surveyor OF the port to proceed to the Post office
and examine the bags then landing from the steamer
Panama, as they opened. In attemptiny to
discharge this Duty he was rudely repulsed by the
officials at the Post-office, and denied admttance
into the office. He was then directed by the Col.
rector to board the steamer and make proper
examination of the remaining bags which was
done causing detention OF the mails for one night
on board. Happily nothing found to Justify
the suspicion, though the affair created great
excitement and has become subject of ne ewspaper
controversy.
great many murders are reported as having
occurred IN different parts of the country one Of
the most cruel OF which is the murder of Can't E
M jarvis, formerly of Texas. Captain j. was
returning home with his wife and child carrying
tue iatter IN MS arms from visit to neIgh Dor
when he was suddenly stabbed in the back, the
KNIFE penetrating to his heart and killing him
instantly A man named Slater is under arrest,
charged with the murder.
esI taken to reIe,s are nSw the
Duelling, and 'pistols and coffee" are in dsuse.
A sly shot or a secret stab sometimes given
when it is necessary for the offended party to give
pledge of his resentment on the moment. but
when time permits. The horsewhip and the cowhide
are the tavorite Instruments of satisfaction This
fashion has occasioned many amusing scenes in
San Francisco.
Mining and Mint.--The Pacific Standard
in sustaining its position that the prospects of the
gold miners brighten, shows that San Francisco
ought to have mint.
- In connection with the condition of the gold
mines and miners must be taken the fact that the
operations OF the assay office, established here by
Congress, has already operated so favorably that
the principal bankers, in order to obtain any share
IN the gold dust trade at all, have been compelled
to raise IT, prIce frum sixteen dollars, the average
rate etnre the establishment of the assay office to
seventeen dollars per ounce. This increase of price
Is OF course benefit to the miner, and the estab-
ilshment OF United States Mint here would fur
ther benefit the miner by giving him the full value
o' ms dust, lhe assay office does not give the full
value OF the gold to the miner, because first it
charges commission upon all gold assayed and
stamped, and the lngots which it stamps not being
considered legal tender, and being only receivable
at the Custom House in payment OF duties do not
enter INTO general circulation, the bankers refusing
10 take them except as special deposit. The mi
ner must therefore suffer loss on his gold until
congress establishes a mint here"
Mfmes.-Repors from various portions of the
State, indicate that mining adventures would be
more productive than had been expected.
The quartz mining operations have been pros.
WI via e H.
are rich beyond all previous calculations. Ose
oil these veins at Nevada sold for $3.50 000
and the purchaser in few days thereafter had ta-
ken out SD 900, and dirt ready for washing which
would yield $4,000 more. The rock in this vein
IS so rlable that in places it can be crushed
by the fingers. The machinery for crushing the
quartz rock is OF course very expensive, and not
nearly all OF those possessing quartz caims have
the means wherewith to purchase it; consequently,
the principle of division of labor commences TO
operate, and in the most favorable manner for the
mIner-that is, the miner gets out the rock from
his clam, and then sells it to the parties owning
machinery, who crush it and extract the gold"
Gold Bka.f and Trinidaa-The last accounts
from those districts are very favorable. and afford
encouraging prospects of large future returns On
the black sand OF the bluff, experiments of extract
ing by quicksilver have already been made to a
large extent, by the parties there engaged, and the
returns show proportion of S. to 81 to the pound
OF sand a small portion of platinum also is gener.
ally found mixed with the sand, easily extracted
as it does not readily yield the test of quicksilver
Ad!scovery OF additional gold deposits recently
made likely to eventuate in important results The
sand as already stated, lies along the b ach in r
regular layers, varying with the action of the wnt
and sea. During the late severe north wester +
large portion of the surface sand was removed ant
the substratum laid bare This on examinatio,
was found to consist of clay, pebbles and debris
which, when sifted and washed, Welded three t.
elght ounces per paiul; alarger proportionate re
an has hnr.t tnfar