New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-02-11
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MARINE Insurance COMPANY-A short time
since some Of our most substantial citizens enter
ed into the project Of getting up Marine Insur-
ance Company, under the general law concerning
corporations passed at the last session Of the
Legislature. The enterprise enlisted the energies
OF the best business men Of the city, and a COM
pany has been formed, with capital Of $500 900,
of which we are glad to learn $780, 900 has al
ready been subscribed
The Company have appointed the usual officers,
VIM. Hart, Esq the enterprisng auctioneer hay
ing been selected as President. Pacific News.
PROPERTY IN CALIFoRSIA.-Itisc curious enough
TO observe the DECENTRALIZATION, as it prevails in
Southern California OF the father holding all the
estate in his own name, even though he be four
score years of age. Don Pablo de la Guerra, a
member of the last Legislature, who we supposed
was one Of the millionaires Of the South, gives in
his estate as worth 5000, while bis old father sets
down the princely sum of sll50O0 for the single
item Of land alone and this probably az great
undervauaton. The Marshal states that gene
raj shyness pervaded all classes of native Califor.
mans below, under the impression that some ex-
tortion about TO be practlsed upon tnem IN the
Mexican style.
MURDER AND Arson AT SAS JosE-On Sun
day night last. at Digby Smiths Rancho, were
found the bodies OF three murdered men, two oil
them proving On investigation, TO be Dgby Smith
and partner each pierced with two balls. and the
was burned down, and it is yet unknown If rob-
berry was also committed 1t is surmised that the
stranger was one OF the attacking party, and lost
bis life in the struggle that ensoed. biz. Smith
was from Burlington, n. j., and was the cultiya>
tor of an extensive farm about two miles this side
of SaR Jose. The store of Baker & Co vas rob-
bed last week during the middle Of the day, while
the clerks were at dinner We are DOT informed
of the amount distracted. Alta California
The Sacramento Transcript says it is ramored
that another Wing paper is to be started in Sacra
The Marysville Herald publishes draft Of
city charter, which the townsmen OF that place
propose sending to the Legislature for confirms
ton, in order that Marysvile may be erected into
a city.
NEW AND RICH DIcGNGs.-A friend who 10
located between the North Fork OF the American
ard Bear Rivers, some s5 miles from this city In
forms us that new and rich discoveries have been
made upon the last named stream, three or four
miles above Steep Hollow, on the Truckee emil
grant road. Two or three persons have been a.
work for several weeks past in the location named,
and have realized from one to two hundred dollars
per day TO each man employed. A large NUMBER
of persons learning these facts have crowded N
recently and located claims The most OF tnoso
at work we learn, are doing exceedingly we'll
Tie gold is found in the side of the nio9 IN
what appears TO be decayed stone. ana psys ~
deep as shafts have been sunk. We are told Tue Tue
gold is in coarse pieces varying In vaiue n0n my
cents up to seven and eight dollars es s. TINA.