The southern press. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-05-10

We suppose tbs wufh 81 erecting tfis vAfiuu
buildings, Offices. &c, at Vallejo will comtnence
The prospects of this State, agriculturally
are, we believe, very promising.
FROM THE MINING DISTRICTS.
The Alta Californian says that the news from
the Gold Bluff is very favorable A rich lead o
gold had been discovered there, from which on,
machine washed over 80 ounces of gold in on,
day. On another day $1,000 were taken out
The gold is found upon the bed. rock, from TIVE
to ten feet below the surface. One bucket o
dirt yielded eight ounces; $l3S had been takel
from twenty-three pounds of the surface sand
an average Of six dollars to the pound. The
Warren, which arrived from the locality at Sal
Francisco on the 28th of March, brought twenty
Thousand dollars In gold.
The San Francisco Standard Of April says
We continue to receive cheering account,
from all portions Of the gold region. The Co
sumnes, Tuolumnc, Calaveras, Mokelumne, Anne
rican, Feather, SCOTS, Klamath, and other river.
in the gold mining country, seud favorable nc
counts. The latest news from the region Of Sar
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-
Ole Of the dredging companies, to which we
have heretofore referred M preparing to operate
has at 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 oil
the river at that point, and the results Of the ex
pertinent were yield Of over one hundred dol
lars per hour. @
The 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 at Nevsda was sold
for SI35,O0O, and the purchaser In a few days
thereafter had taken out $4,000, and dirt ready
for washing which would weld $4,000 more.
The rock in this vein Is so friable that in some
places ii can be crushed by the fingers.
The repeal of the law taxing foreign miners,
it was supposed, would have a material effect in
increasing the receipts of gold. Large numbers
Of those who had ceased working, on the objec-
tionabe 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 as 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 100000. The gold is deposited in a kind
of decomposed clay, and is found thckly set
throughout this whole vein, which appears to be
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 Toulumne river, of which the following
sketch is given in one of the papers:
A location is to be selected on the upper por-
lion of the MERGED river, in as eligible district
~ possible, susceptible Of cultivation, and as
near the range Of foothills as practicable. The
allotment will be made 40 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
farmer, and other persons to instruct them In
the art Of husbandry as practised by the whites;
also with schools They pledged themselves to
till the land and maintain 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
uries Il hicted by the whites at the same trbu-
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, 1t Is said, sent
word that they will not treat, and in conse-
luence, Major Savage has been Informed by the
,omm ssioners that lie is at liberty to take nc
tive measures against them, and he will prob
ally at once commence operations.
DIR. Wozencraft, one of the commissioners
who had visited San Francisco to purchase sup.
plies, left there IN the 29th of March, to be
present ut stalk" which was to b. held with
the Indians on the first Of April. After the
treaty which was ex, ected to be the result, was
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-
pal y 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
a 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 Kirkindale) proceeded
about thirty miles on foot with acme forty men,
after the Indians, who fed to raDcheria in the
where large body Of Indians were
assembled The volunteers attacked them,
drove them from their position, burned their
rsncheria, and killed a number Of the Indians
The Indians sent In runner, asking for ces.
sation CT hostilitics 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
the whites for a subsistence.
They professed previous Ignorance Of the
design Of the whites, and a wise desire to come
and treat. They surrendered 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,
to bring in from two to six hundred.
Capt. X. says they killed ten Of tho Indians and
wounded several, destroyed several tons of
jerked beef and large quantities Of acorns.
The Indians, Apaohes probably, had attacked
and taken possession of Tucson, the last town
in Sonora, coming toward the ella river The
not being able TO hold the place,
abandoned It.
MISCELLANEOUS.