The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-08-15
SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST IS, 1852.

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from furnishing the foreigners with supplies of any
cpton and one trader who bad always furn sned theu
WIN provisions, was also forced to quit-and an Amer
They bad frequently applied to the authorities for per
mission to remain on paying te license Of SO per
but we're answered that collector had vet been an
pointed
MI Liaguno firmly believes that had It not been 70,
the friendly OF Mr. Belt an old acquaintance
OF bis thas be would have been hung
Considerable difficulty Il expected between miners on
moSeiomne during the present summer resulting
heard OF several instances where this aresdy been
attempted of late by parties OF French Gcr mans
VINO 10 one instance even told the propreor they
would fight before they would leave This Is certainly
very wrong ard will receive countenance in this
community than 1t deserves. Miners will scarcely lay
by and watch their claims till the waters fall and then
quietly take an invitation to leave from the first inter-
| loper that comes along
spondeDt Of the Republican, writing from Mari.
| posa county says that many Of the gulches now
abandoned for want Of water. The water in Merced
and San joaquin rivers too high permit sue
cessfo mining those streams whilst in the Marposa
Chouchia and Frezno rivers, the miners are all doing
well They well repaid for their labors on Max wels
creek sberlocks whitiocks and sextons and az Marble
Springs Spangle Gold Clutches There is not much
the quartz ledge. An English company have leased the
Mount Oph vein and will shortly erect aud extern
sve machinery upon It, and prosecute the with vi
eor Some members Of an English company to whom
Colonel Fremont sold ON ntsrest in this quartz vein
narposa are not little at their future pros
poets.
There are two companies at work. engaged bring
ing the water from the Stanaus be distributed
the entire country lying between the Caaveras and Stan
islaus The work will be completed in September when
II IL expected that great rush will be made to that
gion
The miners at Csrson's Creek, Angels and San An.
dreas who have water to work their tom,ar averaging
about $12 per day.
party fitting out in Mariposa county for the pur-
pose of prospecting extensive region of country
posed to be aurierous from the head Of Kings river
sOuthward
New deposits Of gold have been found on Soldier gulch
county Extensive preparations arc being made
gentleman just down from the mountains informs US
on o the
about thirty feet and as high $1l5 have been taken
out to the pan -Journal
Mr. Llaguno says the correspondence is well known to
some Of the most respectable merchants of San Francisco
and Stockton and has in his possession the attcr
ing testimonials, from prominent men in Mazatsn aud
San Francisco of his character honest and indus
trious man. lie has arrived in Stockton with nothing
but the clothes he has on having been compelled to sell
Americans He is on his way to this city, to lay the
WHOLE matter before the Spanish consul.
Many Of the miners Maxwels Creek in consequence
of the secretly Of water have gone to tho Merced river
The water in the creek has raised since they left
The people north of the Mokelumne organizing q
company for the purpose turning the waters Of The
North Fork from their channel and conducting them
through the rich place lying between Jackson Greek and
the Mokelumne The cost Of the work Is estimated at
two hundred thousand dollars and if properly built will
prove source Of great profit to the shareholders.
The river in the neighborhood OF Jesus Maria
has been already turned at several places by Mecans
Frsnchmen and other foreigners who adopting the pro-
WE'LL although the river yet too high to operate to
any great advantage With the races constructed,
lower stage of the water they cannot fail to do well
from the known richness Of those portions previously
worked.
The miners in the vicinity of the Foremans ranch are
busy engaged carting dirt from the gulche the south
Branch of the Calavcras is supposed that when this
will have sufficiently fallen to enable miuers to
The miners in the north represented doing we'll
Mr. Wilson OF the Stockton Journal whose observations
from careful and authentic and upon whose
statements much reliance be placed presents pic
ture Of mining affairs which is unfavorabe than
any exhibit that has been made in many months lie
says complaints rife in quarter Of the interior
country and times harder just now, throughout the
mines north and south than they have been before
This state Of things he arms attributable to
causes. In the first place. provisions high; then
there Is large number OF persons int in the % mines the
Is water in the guches; tho rivers all high many
Of the races have given out persons have been o.
nothing; old miners unwilling to work for low wages
and many of the new miners are unsettled and Hssatis-
fed But while such is the present state Of things far
large majority of the miners concerned, 1t Is
stated that many have good locations and realizing
by any means gloomy There Is an abundance Of gold
in the dry diggings whc will be supplied with water
by canals after next winter In the course Of two or
the waters falling rapidly and the yield from the
river beds will be immense.
The miners Hamburg still doing remarkably
we'll also those Dead Wood Cherry, Greenhorn and
Cottonwood Greeks. party OF eighteen men are now
engaged in bringing water into rich gulch located in
Scots Valley from distance Of ten miles for the
pose Of washing.
The Marmaiuke Hill diggings Georgetown, have
lately proved very rich. The Bay State Company, In
that vicinity is cutting a tunnel five hundred feet in
length mostly through the solid rock. Other tunnels
also being run into the hi with every prospect Of
success.
Suffering and Mortality on Steamships.
STEAMSHIP 8 s LEWIS.
The steamship s s Lewis had arrived at San Fran
cisco having left del Sud the 10th Of June
The San Francisco Whig says" The accounts, by the
orf ha0rf
nature Many Of them been 63 days in making the
passage from New York to San Francisco, and de-
This occurred unfortunately at the opening Of the rainy
and multitude Of human beings were left with
out shelter comforts Of any kind The result was
frghtfu list of deaths such has seldom before been
our lot TO notice. OF the passengers by the Northern
Light from New York thirty four have died on the way
twenty San Juan and fourteen the passage thence
to this port We clip the following list Of deaths, in
part, from tine Erening Jotunai:-
JUAN DEL SUD
John Frederick Nezt. Boston; Christian Myers, New
York; Alex Ishlsushles st Louis; Peter McCarty New
York waldron, Auburn, New York; J. w. Hotch-
kiss Farhaven Conn; Roseville Derbyshire Lenox,
Mass; Charles III. Everett Bridgeport. Conn; VIM. p.
Page Ryegate; T. L. Wright, N. H.; Kbourne Knox, Il.
trick Mccarthy. Canada; Michael Reinhart. Pttsburg,
Pa; James Graves do; Chas Dunn. New York; Thomas
O. Kane, Lowell, Mass Cornelius Baker, Franklin coun-
ty, Pa Henry Lee, Duxbury, Mass; Samuel Ingle,
ON BOARD THE 8. s. LEWIS.
John Roach Mass; Afford Robinson, Danvers Plains;
John G. Jones Cayuga county, N. r.; Ezekiel Young,
South Kenningly, Conn Benjamin X. Clark. Chelsea,
Vt; Lewis Farwe Charestown, N. H.; Jacob Jamble,
st. Louis Missouri; Moses Lane, Lowell Mass; Sam
| uel Wheldon Germantown Pa Samuel Muer Salem,
Mass; Augustus Beekman Germany; Joseph Hill Yer
non, N. Y; Nicholas Welsh, Conn; Clark b. Roberts,
Vermont.
STEAMSHIP INDEPENDENCE.
There was little excitement raised In city on
Monday the arrival of the steamer Independence
which IL indicative Of the deeper feeling obtaining
throughout the community in reference to the overload
ing ships and steamers this coast with passengers
/ The excitement raised by the exhibition In our
streets Of an egy of Mr. Vanderbilt which carried
by quite number Of the passengers just arrived
in the Independence There some little fun created
at the exhibition Of the figure although there some
thing melancholy and painful connected with It, The
passengers before the steamer arrived had constructed
the eRgy (Which rather larger than ife) and had
kept IL for some time In the very cabin itself On the
arrival of the steamer they attached to It's breast large
placard labeled vanderbilts Death Line I" procured
1 q wagon. mounted the image into It. and proceeded
through Of the streets, accompanied By crowd