Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-02-15
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CALIFO RNIA,

having entirely disappeared. There was no acti-
vty in business and the prices of goods were such
as to be discoursging to the commercial communi-
ty. The mines were yielding less profit than du-
ring the past season, but it was hoped that the
yield Of next year would be better, il was de-
termined during the ensuing spring and summer to
enter energetically upon the mining of quartz gold
with the aid of machinery and steam. The meet
ing of the Legislature, to take place on the 6h of
january, was attracting considerable interest on
account Of the uncertainty of the political coRplex
ion of the body and of the result of the strife for
the post of United States Senator, for which there
were seven competitors. In both town and coun-
try there was much greater amount Of crime
agains. property and life than before prevalent,
which is attributed TO organized bands of foreigners
whose trade is pillage and murder. We have moth
ing rew on the subject of Indian depredatons 'ex-
cept in the Mariposa country, where it is said that
all efforts to pacify the Indians have proved to be
unavailing.
EXTRACTS FRcE ETHE NEWSPAPERS.
sQUARTx GoLDIt is supposed that there i6O, 600
versions now in mining for gold Recent
aeveopmsnss in the gold rason ha demonstrated that the
weld will be much greater than at present. and that
the supply is nexhaube So-socn as suitable machinery
shal constructed the mines gold bearing quartz now
progress Of being worked the supply from that source w
be immense Veins Of very rich gold bearing quartz have
been discovered along nearly the whole range Of THE Sierra
Nevada mountains and sa that is wanting to develop the
richest results saiabe machinery Nearly al thestesm
engines heretofore sent out to California Tor that purpose
have been deficient in power.-FGcifc Ne,os, Jan. l.
OUsRrz MIsrss--Among the extensive establish
ments may be enumerated & Aspnwa the
erection Of whose machinery completed together with
large number Of surrounding buildings, such as dwelling
ouses backsni,hs SHOPS joiners Shops c Their ma
chDy Is said be far superior to any otheryet put up for
the purpose for which it is designed
Palmer Cooke .SE'Co also making large outays OF
money mining operaons a have thus far been well paid
by the rch harvest the precious metal which they have ex
trse ed from the huge and ponderous rock Our informant
saws that they have quantities of roek and
already extended s.snI hundred deep through
4 the difficult part Of the ssId vein OF quarn:
Several companies organized In the vicinity OF
Be.ns Dagngs the purpose working the quartz rocks
there being that section one hundred and hy persons en-
Gagged In minng and OF them having their machinery
sready in noon.-San Frascisco Journal OF Commerce.
The M1srRs-Up to the present time we have had but
little rannot enough enable miners to work in the ravnes
and dry dgeings with much advantage Only lew days at
time has there been sufficient water to admit CT washing
Shoud the present weather connue, will to some extent
interfere with the calculations Of miners They will not
be able 10 realize nc much from their mining operations In the
eary part of the winter anticipated but when he
snow upon the mountains begins to melt the present
condition Of things will change, and ample amends VIII
be made for the time will not be lost as the miners are
now throwing up earth preparatory to washing. The
Of the mining interest Of California during the
past good the which
were sustained in the early part Of the season by dammng
operations miners have generally done well They have
fin the aggregate, obtained large amount oi goid.
4 Sacramento Times.
Il DEATH IN THE MousrAIxs-A correspondent Of the Pa
cSc News under date Ynha city, December lS writes
By the last reports the headwaters Of Feather river,
snow has fallen to depth Of twelve fourteen feet and
cold is that eighteen out Of party Of nine
tsen men froze death in night and sixty or seventy
mnas The snow fell rapidly that the wood was all COW
esed and they obliged bum their cabin to keep from
freezing but that did not save them II s known that
hundred remained the North Fork, with the
determination Of wnterng there, and fears are now entertain
ed that they will all perish.
BERNARD B. LIGHT, of Hedgev;le (Va.) was frozen to
death few miles north of Downieve The snow was
sbouta foot deep at the time.
The specie shipped from San Francisco by the steamers Of
January was as follows BY the Caroline $780, Oo0 by
the Columbus, s5I6,OOo Total 81, ,at6,ooo.
R. MCKEE, Esq and DR.. WozEscRAsr, the commissioners
appointed to treat with Indians Of California had arrived
at San Francisco ,s
The cholera had been very fatal Santa Babara In many
cases whole families became extinct.
The cusom-house Monterey robbed the 9TH of
January Of $780, OOO portion of it belonged to the Col
ector, and the remainder to the Government Five men
under arrest Suspicion Of being concerned in the
affair
bill had passed the Board Of Assistant Aldermen Of San
Francisco fixing the salary the Mayor at $4,000, and of
his clerk at S5, 600 per
Bible Society, auxiliary to the American Bible Society,"
formed San Jose, the State Capital, the 9th of De-
cember and Professor Banistes elected President The
nua meeting be held the fourth Sabbath Of January
depository had been established at which Bibles and Tes
aments, in English French Spanish and German, were
kept on hand.
The schooner Pauxen, Government service, lost
on the Goth Of November in Trinidad Bay. About fourteen
days previous of her boats cspszed the mouth Of
the klamath rives and three lives lost namely, Lieut. Wood
ward Phenix Davis passenger and named Ed |
wards.
Extract from letter from gentleman of San |
Francisco to friend in Washington:
/ SAX FRAscIsco, DECEMBER 90, 1850.
Mr. Dean SIR On my first arrival felt if were in
new world The extraordinary charges the eageness and
rapidy with which business transacted, the rise Of the
town. and the Of shipping riding at anchor,
more than realized all that had been told Imagine city,
containing thirty thousand people, concentrated during the
day within of onehid of mile square, all bent
one object and all determined, rather ndugng, in the IL
usoy hope Of achieving that object within the space of
or less Natives Of every cline, and speaking almost every
language there continued effort to make and to accu
muae money In this for gold the code Of morals is in
suspended be perhaps again acknowledged when
their pile is made and they homewad bound The city