New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-02-07
Further from California.


mast 4heads in every sea. God bless the people
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Further from California.
MAsoSIc cEIERRATros-The anniversary Of St. John
the Evangelist celebrated by the Masonic fraternity
of san Francieco with great ceremony. procession was
formed which marched to the Theatre where adr
delivered by Mr. Gilman. dinner concluded the
festiy ties. .-. -zs. o. ...t l..-
PoIrcAL.-The following is resolution passed by the
city officials of San Francisco. who by
cision of the Supreme Corrt
Resoed That while bow to the decision Of the Su-
preme Court, in the OF the people rel Harris
Brenam. would nevertheless advise all the city off,
Who not directly affected by that decision to
tain their positions such officers until legal decision
be had in their severaly and tbat VIM Greene
the present President Of the Board Of Aldermen be
questfd to commence proceedings against DR. S Har-
rs the purpose of testing his authority exercise the
prerosatives of Mayor of the city Of San francisco
JoHN WILSON. Chairman.
SMILING GoLp.--The Nevada Journal describes the
extensive arrangements made by the Bunker Hill Quarts
Company for smelling the auerous rocks taken cut of
their mine This will be the first instance in this State of
the application Of this method of extracting the gold
The expense Of putting up the necessary furnaces and
apparatus great that few will undergo it, although
by tins every grain of the gold is saved In Hun
gary and other gold regions in the old settled countries
smelling is resored to almost universally. We have
adopted the method of crushing and amalgamating in
Use in Mexico and the South American States Should
the experiment about to be made by the Bunker Hill
naces generally introduced throughout the quartz
mines by the present comparatively rude process,
eastone half of the gold is ostby that Of smelling, not
grain
LAND SLIpE-DEsTRucTIos OF U. 5. BONDED WARE
HoUsENe had occasion but few days ago to speak Of
the immense amount of labor expended in cutting
the impraccable hills that terminate abruptly the
waters edge about Carks Point and to mention the fact
that MIR Griffin had erected three spacious corrugated
iron houses upon the land reclaimed be used United
States Bonded Warehouses for the storage of goods The
warehouses extend back from the street rs feet until
their walls almost touch the face of the rocky cliff
that towers hundred feet overhead Yesterday morn
ing tremendous crash was heard in the neighborhood
and it at suspected that land slide had taken
place and building been crushed Such proved to
be the fact for yesterday morning Of destruction
was witnessed upon the spot where Mr.. Griiiins
houses stand little distance beyond Laws Wharf Two
OF them the south had been crushed by the falling
upon them of immense mass of rock from the over
hanging cliff loosened by the soaking rains that have
vailed for several days past This ponderuus
cred and destroyed the roof for distance of about fifty
feet from the forced out the south side of of thu
buildings and burst them all in every direction They
contained about three thousand tons of bonded goods
wheh that portion covered by the rocks is of
ruined while the heavy rains which have been allin
ever since penetrated the seams opened and seriously in
jura much valuable property of pershabe character
COLI Werth, the Superintendent. has exerted himself
further damage by covering the goods with
vas and Temporary shelters but unless they are prumptl
removed from the action Of the rains still further 10.
must ensue BY proyidential circumstance one seI
in the two buildings which demolished. In til
third however upon which the slide did not fall two
were sleeping Had itbeen little wider in extent the
must have been crushed We tear other
dcls of similar character may occur in this neghbor
hoC for the hills have been down perpendculary al
around and seemed less likely to slide from the
ton of the rain than the solid rocky which has
| duded much damage.
Posr CoLoRADo.-We understand that Majo
Andrews of the United States Army has received orders
eye the 1s January for San Diego thence to take
small vessel and ten men, and proceed up the Gulf o
California to the post established at the junction of thu
Colorado and Gla 1t is designed to establish garrison
permanently at that point to protect the emgrants
keep the Yumas in check The crossing of the Colorado
has to be dreaded only account OF the deser
country in the vicinity but from the reacerous and
tile disposition the tribes who inabt that section
the country 1t is intended that the garrison about
located there will hereafter eeetuay protect egrant
WHO may select the ella route into California The navi
CATION Of the Colorado has seldom been attempted, bu
| one vessel we believe, having undertaken it.
FouNDpIEs MACHINE SHops.-Alessrs. r. NJ. Folge
Brother, making extensive arrangements for estab
fishing machine shop in Sacramento They abou
put up two athes thirty feet long swinging five feet
and weighing each 15,000 pounds. Their machinery is t
bepropeed by two engines OF ten horse power and ac
tics will be provided for manufacturing and repairin
machinery, engines and apparatus of every kind Tn
great demand arising from the extensive introduction
machinery in the working Of the quartz mines and tn
great increase in the number of river steamers and
sequent frequency of accidents has started this enter
| prise.
dries and machine shops where everything be manu-
featured from the of steamship to the snaes
| cog wheel of a crushing mill
| CASALs-The San Francisco Herald says
i W
the conveyance of merchandise in boats there
ber of them in the mines upon which immense labor ha
been expended designed to carry supply of water rol
the rivers the dry diggings In FL Dorado such
has Just been completed being fourteen miles in engt
and built by the individual exertions and enterprise
| miners
| P.RpoNEp-Charles Brown. convicted of manslaught
at San Francisco, has been pardoned by Gov McDou,
CAMERAS CouSTRy-The Herald publishes the folowi,
extract of letter dated Mokelumne Hill, December .
Acts of violence succeed each other with such rapd
that almost hesitate about communicating them yo
We have gold in the hills and guches of this tow
more gamblers, more rowdies and more murders than
almost any other section of California and the civil
hores who always well paid for being conservatc
Of the peace bring no one to justice last Sunday eve
James Clark they at Mexican rum shop had bo
been drinking freely. Clark was fouishing his bow
knife Frazier observed who is afraidr and turned
20 away with that Clark stabbed him the knife enter
the left side. the kidney and passing downwards
wards the spleen fears were entertained that the
would prove fatal but under the of DR. Sober,
probability is that he will recover Clark taken
fore Justice of the Peace, examined and testmo
| given concerning the affair, when he committed
Jail He taken to Jackson, the county seat, in t
stage running between this place and Sacramento Ju
before arriving at jackson. the stage overset hurting
driver Mr.. Clark. and Deputy Sheriff Gall very badly
Clark escaped unnurcd and is in Jail. AT the ne
) term of court he will have his trial.
THE RAtxs--AI our exchanges from the interior co
tain cheering of the heavy t Of rain in the
vicinity.
At PaCervlue the miners were l!uHS
night and day fearing that the refreshing showers Wou
not last long At DOwnieviie every body was in sta
of active excitement at the good fortune which naa p
fallen them At Marysve any quantity OF ram ma
fallen raising the Yuba river fourteen feet in three 9a
1t is now higher than has been witnessed since tne wh
of 10 and so Up to the 23d inst the rams nau pee
falling three days at Nevada, producing qte
Deer Creek At Sacramento the rains nave peeh iaihl
T. violently From the Southern mines the accounts
equally cheering. The miners are represented 10 De
fne sirit and working away ndstrlonsiy ut their lo
, neglected heaps of earth 1t would not be beyond y
mark say that every day OF ram we nave hau mas ado
r 100000 to the wealth OF the etate'
a LArxcH.-The iron propeller Kangaroo was launch
recently at Happy Valley by Mr. NJ Vice. She intend
9 for a ferry-boat to Contra Costa.
! I,rar LiMp-The San Francisco Herald says
: examined yesterday at the jewelry establishment
i ,fessrs Jacks Woodruff magnificent specimen of mi
gled gold and quartz, in the proportion of about thr
fourths of the precious metal to onefourh of rock
weighs 176 ounces and taken from vein in III Dora
county. 1t is valued at $4,000.
t RAGE FOR TIrlEs-In the list of passengers names
the Vallejo Ball. there appear no less than Is Honorap
IS Captains, II Colonies, Is Generals, u Mayors ana
. doctors There Rga hut seven nance ofs eT @as WA
= have no title pfpnyfi 10 then