New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-01-07
ecnfsioner al has been fully committed to stand hi


commissioner ami has been fully committed to stand hi
trial on the charge of murder on the high seas
route from Carson's Valley the Sierra Ne
vas has been discovered shortening the distance to Sa
craiento passing the mountains at elevation
siderably less than that Of the old trail
The law the funding IF the debt of San Francisco
hss worked admiralty The interest the bonds issued
promptly paid and 900 of the principal re-
deemed at 55per cent. on the dollar.
No crime Of SERIOUS character has occurred within
The city for some Weeks.
improvements OF the most extensive and substantial
character are going up with great rapidity
The climate has been for weeks deliciousy cool
clear and nyignrtting The miners have been blessed
within the fortnight with occasional rains but still
anxously looking for to wash out their heaps
earth accumulated during the summer
yoteAsons IN CklrroRslA--Some singular and impor.
tant geological discoveries have recently beeu made in
California The San Francisco Courier in article OH
the subject says
Of his rambes during the past in the mountains
California which highly interesting and doubt not
will result in much good to State and people at large
Among other discoveries is that of short and easy
route the Sierra Nevada Mountains perfectly prac-
tcable for wagons. Mr. Noble is old woodslna and
his judgment and Opinions entitled great weight
and we have no doubt that when he and his party shall
open the route nest spring the whole overland imgra-
ticn Of next year will come over it,
Mr.. Mobiles has communicated to the particulars
relative to the discovery OF several volcanoes spur of
the range of the Sierra Nevada which strange to
US have heretofore been discovered For seventy
i've miles in length the soil is nothing but barren waste
Of cndefs yet timber is nterspersel amongst it, and
instead being rge craters similar to those of South
America Europe these volcanoes small openings of
various sizes some feet wide and less
which keep continual boiling up of lava There are two
places where this each place having hundred or
of these small openings The ground around is loose
and is dapgerose to tread upon 1t gives away to the
weight OF of Mr. Mobiles party getting his foot
into theearth by misstep and being severely burned
At night these places emit burning lava producing every
variety Of color and presenting grand sight The
at times scarcely percepble when suddenly it will be-
gin to puff and Increase until it resembles the noise of
several steamboats, blowing off steam at So far
Mr. A. was able todiscover evidence of gold
any valuable mineral in the vicinity number of
places where the fires had gone out were seen in the
vicinity, of them where the lava had been thrown
up forming crater five hundred feet high. One Of the
volcanoes which y out but presents the appearance
ri haping been h operation lately about fifty
and Represented presenting the beautiful
scenery imaginable chewing all the various color of the
rainbow and when the shines it, dazzles the eye
by its briliancy The volcano has thrown M a noun
tain of black SAND, somewhat resembling sand from gold
dust to the height of eight hundred feet The
party attempted TO ascend this mountain hut found 1t
impossible as il wis like wheat pile, and they sank down
INTO at every sp The whole scenery is represented
most grand in the vicinity of these ertlptions.
shall look with much interest for the further eXplo
ration of these regions and have arrangements to
procure detailed account Of them when made We are
much indebted to Mr. Mobiles for the information he has
furnished regarding this phenomena