Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1852-01-15
Fen days Later -
va FROM CALIFORNIA
TIE DANTEL WEasrr,


100 ~SSS'vvv IN GOLD DUST. rqs
The Daniel Webster arrived at New YORK.
Jan. III, at o'clock A. M She BRING, oys,
500 passengers. and adyices from San Fran:
cisco TO Dec 18th 81 -,''1,r - n
The U. ). Steamer Saranac arrived at San
Juan Jan. LIST, which event created great ex-
citement among the inhabitants. atof SOP
me daniel Webster sailed from San Juan
a. +. NJ, the same day, with 80 passengers
lot New Orleans, and 255 for New York
one has on freight and in hands of passen-
gers S5oo,ooo. She does not bring the mails.
GENERAL SUMMARY OF NEws-Si6ce,o,,r
last steamer issue there has been cors;Jor.IIst
news interesting to the United State. p.;o
has fallen sufficiently to enable miner. = -.
dry diggings 10 prosecute their labors with an
ergy and effect. geiars ..f.ss 81" -"
Great excitement has been produced in ,ho
Southern Mines by the discovery of richer die,
giags than eve before opened -Iaone weee
in hole few feet square, between two and
three Hundred thousand dollars were extracted
The news getting abroad in another week.
there conld be seen at the new diggings town
of several thousand inhabitants, and the coun-
try for miles around was staked out in mining
plains. ~ q - VI 6Aa0t0 ~ NV
The Furnishing town of Placervile has
nearly doubled its population, owing TO recent
discoveries of rich diggings in its vicinity. A
Press has been added to their other necessities
of life, SO we can hereafter learn of their sue
cess from themselves. irIs -.,- .re.. 5.
Extensive operations are being entered into
by quartz miners. Leads of the most surpris-
ing richness are almost daily being discovered,
and companies almost as frequently formed to
work them. erin Esi-l.yy -.,-.,..-.s .4i.-.
The news from the southern portion of the
State is less cheering. The Indians, from the
| ella to the settlements near the Pacific, are
reported TO be combined to drive away the en-
tire white population. Attacks were made on
unoffended citizens, some of whom have been
killed. Cattle and horses have been driven off.
In short, general system of murder and plum
der seems 10 have been adopted by the savages.
The surveys for the railway from San Fran
cisco 10 San Jose are completed. The report
is flattering, and a route has been located Of
satisfactory character The lengths AZ miles,
of which AZ are straight: The estimated cost
A great excitement prevails in SCOTS Val
ley and Mount Shasta city, in respect to Hum
bug Diggngs, eight miles from this place !;
they average an ounce per day. Business is
brisk at Shasta city The miners are just
commencing business, and average from ST to
$40 day.
The Colonel Fremont arrived at San Fran
cisco on the 18th ult from San Angeles
Among her passengers was Col. Terrell, Col
lec,or of San Diego. lie thinks the war by
no means ended, as there was no indication of
it when. he left. He says it is the opinion of
the Oldest settlers, who have gone through
several wars, that there will yet be general
insurrection among them, which will be pro-
tracted and desperate. So far as heard from,
fourteen whites had been killed by the Indians
The Sacramento Union says the rain has as
yet been Of little benefit in the dry dIggings.-
Rich quarlZ veins have been discovered 10 the
vicinity of Gibsonville, Upper Feather River.
The Oregon Bar Company, consisting Of
twenty-five men, have taken out $35 900 the
present season. They have suspended opera
lions until the spring. ...
The New York Daming Co., on the same
stream, have relieved the bed of the river Of
about $36, 900 since July Goth. They com-
pose seven men.
State convention of settlers and miners is
TO be held at Sacramento, January IA.
A correspondent of the the Stockton Journal,
from Fort Miller, on the San joaquin, says
The miners at this point are doing well. An
industrious man is of making 81 day,
and it is no uncommon thing for man 10 dig
So and SO. The bed of the stream has been
but little worked. and it is supposed that rich
discoveries will yet be made. There is gem
eral stampede at present for placer discov-
cred near Coarse Gold Gully
From OREGoN.-The advices are one month
later, and not very interesting. Rains had Sc,
in and interrupted trade 10 some extent
Marriages have been asionishngly on the
increase during the past monlh-the Orego-
MAN contains list of 81, which took place be-
tween the 18Th and 30th Of Nov l