Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-06-15
rwo WEEKS LATER FROM cAL1FoB.
TcenlN-seeea days "a tfom Sc francis

Arrival of She ssc#ssaer s,linoi..
The U. S. Mail Steamship Clipper Illinois
Lieut.. X. ]. Hartsteiu, U. S. NJ left AspinwalI
the night of June 4tlh with 81 500, 900 in dust,
and arrived early this morning. with 525 passen-
gers aud the United States mail from San Fran.
cisco, of May 10th
The Illinois made the run home this voyage in
days, hours, running time--the quickest run
ever made.
The Mail Steamer Oregon had arrived at Pan
anna with 364 passengers, the steamship New
Orleans with 80, the clipper Antelope with 100,
making $50, of which number the Illinois brings
| 525.
The California Legislature have passed bills for
the funding of 100000 of the State Civil Fund.
Also, the War Fund.- and the floating debt o! the
country. Also authorizing the receiving of the
uniunded State Warrants for the payment of the
School Fund.
An affair OF honor occurred at Washington, oppo-
site Sacramento, between III. A. DeCourcey Ed
itor ofthe Calaveras Chronicle, and w. H. Car
ter, Esq, of Sacramento, in which the former was
shot through the body He is convalescent.
Cal. Express
ILLNESS OF Gov BIGLER-We regret to learn
that Gov. Bigler was taken quite i'll last evening.
while at the residence of Mr.. W. c.. Hoff. We
are informed that his attack is of bilious char
acter, and though quite severe is not regarded as
dangerous Atta Californian, 1st
From the mines, our news is cheering. A Com
pany in Downeville is taking out one thousand
dollars per day and seem to think it only tolerably
good work.
CATTLE.-Quite lively trade has been doing
in cattle for the last few weeks. Large droyes
have already started for the upper country, and
more will get away in the course of another fort
night. The average prices for which thew are
selling at the ranches, is from SIG to $50.
BIG FIsH.-A sturgeon was caught in the Sa-
cramento river near the city, which weighed 80
pounds.
LATEST FROM FEATHER RIVER.
RIcH BAR, North FEATHER RIVER,
May 9th, 1852.
The miners are busy engaged in getting their
fluming timbers ready, and every indication of
| prosperity and contentment is visible Miners
here are working more methodically than they
have heretofore done, and you may depend that
more gold will be taken from the mines tbs sea-
son In our diggings than has ever been got out in
| any one year before
Two saw-mils are nearly completed and the
| river will be then humed almost entirely from n
half mile above town to the lower end of Indian
Bar Below that several companies are cutting
out lumber with whip saws to flume the river
or tile last week the weather has been pleasant
and the river is now falling fast. We have too
much water yet to work the bars but the miners
on the hills are doing we'll and have been all win
ter
New diggings have been found in the last few
days on the hill at Missouri Bar below this,
which have created considerable excitement
Miners are coming in every day, and those
who are not disposed to try their luck at once find
ready employment at Sc per day. Provisions are
abundant and cheap.
SAN Joaquin NEWS.
piece Of gold weighing tllirty-six ounces was
found u few days since at the head of Rattle
snake Greek, near Big Oak Flat It was valued
at $500. Persons carting earth Oh the Flat are
earning an average which is equal to the yield of
any placer diggiags in the Southern mines. One
party engaged in cartng dirt taken from the dig
glngs, paying from the surtace to the ledge, have
made rs high as nine ounces per day, with an
average of five or six ounces. Many persons, of
course, work hard in those, as we'll as other Dig
gings, without making more than three or four
dollars per day. But without work even that
amount cannot be made.
THE CHINESE POPULATION.
The first Chinese emigrants to California, ar
rived in the brig Eagle, from Hongkong, in the
month OF February, lo48-two men and one wo-
man. But four arrived during the succeeding
twelve months. On the 1st of February, 1849
there were but ffty-four Cinnamon and one Chi
nese woman in California. On the 1st January,
1850, there were in California 7S9 men and
two women During the early part of that year
about three hundred Cinnamon left here for the
Chincha Islands, having been engaged here bv
the 'Guano Company
On the lst OF January, 1851 there were in
California, 4,0l8 mon and women. On the 1st
of January, 1852, there were 1920.
There are doubtless many Gilman en- in Cali
fornia not herein enumerated, whose numbers
have never been reported at the Custom House,
most OF whom, however, consist of cooks, stew
ards, crews, etc.. of vessels from China, who have
1o,n Sod IL Ii, 81, Mt
have returned to China, or left California for 9TH
er ports, in like capacities. Such arrivals and
departures have been estimated to very nearly
balance each other, and as there are no means of
ascertaining the numbers with correctness, they
form no portion of the foregoing statement.
1t will be quite safe to set down the total Chi
nese population now resident in California at
$4,000, andits increase will probably be from 1000
to 10000, between this and 1st January next
Under these circumstances, we do not see any
imperative necessity for the hue and cry which is
attempted relative to this particular class of for
egners. The French and Spanish American
population both exceed the Chinese very largely
at the present moment, and no one fears danger
OF misfortune from their excessive numbers
Alta California.
DIFFICULTY WITH THE CHINEsE-Some days
since we published a series OF resolutions adop-
ted by the miners of Fosters and Atchison's Bars
in relation to the Chinese located among them at
those places. Since then we have learned the
inducing the miners to adopt the course they did.
A party of Chinese located on slnal ravine near
Atchisons bar, which they began working
They made no claim but working along usual
with miners when they do not regard their loca-
ton very highly, and are willing to have any
one that chooses, strike in near them. Several
Americans who were out prospecting, came along
by them and made prospect upon the opposite
i6ao IF tba no vyha Cinnamon
at work. They got pretty fair show and staked
off claim and went to work. Some days after
wards the Chinese found out their neighbors were
doing very we'll, and removed their stakes SO rs
to throw large portion of what the Americans
considered the best portion of their claim out of