New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-06-14

ce"sSsh SAN FRANCISCO Monday May ie $50
.ontipue "ebservstions" And now a word about
n. L.. az the steam marine on the Pacific. The num-
~ a. vessels lost Is either thirteen or fourteen WITHIN
.hs mast three years, ranging in value from the sea
Gull, say $4,000 to the Tennessee, yooyVc ep al
sems si70OOOO or thereabout. Nearly all these vet
sss have been lost by running the coast 700 Gloss a.
hsr5 Three only BY stress Of weather put into ports
and were condemned The City OF Pittsburgh vas 0arn'
In the barbor Of Valparaiso. Two were iost on nun
derboIt Bar Perhaps, like the Tennessee and > D
Lewis thew were where neither common prudence nor
caution would have dictated, and in heavy fog what
excuse for running either Of those vessels WITHIN twenty
miles az AN iron bound and most fghu coast IN iog
wbeD by laying oandon few hours safely rh sI Iosa
both for hundreds Of lives and valuable shps Inc loss
ot the Tennessee IL heavy blow TO the Paclfc MAI
Steamship Company not 30 much IN It's casn vauatonD
the deraneement works in their time Inc tennessee
was noble and entirely reliable ship running at small
expense and with precision and regularity equal al
mst n mechanism In the names Of all those passen.
gers who risk their lives the steamers hither, pro-
test against thus jeopardizing them, and huggng the
coast 1 would not underwrite dollar upon the
steamers ON this coast until they were bound to
give il wider berth any steamer is unsound that
Il not safe TO her out of the sound Of the surf she
IL not ct to make voyage and should be turned into
store-shp, or be broken up. Am not correct'
Our barbor and wharves again present TO view some
magnificent specimens Of naval architecture, whose CON
the full and still they come" The market fsttens
daily for almost all kinds Of goods and before reaction
airy movement can take place, will break up many
dream Of fiscal bliss. serious crisis is evidently ap
preaching and goods will scarcely pay charges soon,
The market be much more crowded
The buIes and ruians Of all sorts and sizes have
God-send just in Sonora Expedition. 1t is SAID
that some honorable and gentlemen are at the head
of the movement. Very! The Convention project
being put to rest and an evidently increasing determ
nation being manifested by the people TO keep there
the propaQandists must find spot TO COLOMBO mig
gers on this coast 80 they will steal Sonora from
Mexico as they would have done Lower California, if
worth the powder. riotOus and lawess spirit Is
shamefully manifested in California
The weekly mail will be very fine thing for u.s. but
the greater portion Of the people cannot refrain from
looking upon IL as ahumbug. The PostmasterGenerals
letter 20 our Postmaster makes the arrangement I'M
palaabe to us-so much so that the old semimonthly
custom il adhered TO- Some sixty TO eighty bags left
by the Panama last week against probably nearer three
hundred to go to-day by the John l.. Stephens.
Santa Barbara has recently presented us with pic
ture Of the future of land squabbes in our State Fraud
injustice perjury, riots fights and murders Let those
have land say l. who will take IL at such price Not
Extension Of the City Front Of San FfaaeiseO.-Your
correspoudeDt JOIN JOHssoS cannot why the city
front should not be extended in the face of solemn,
definite act of 1851, permanently fixing its bounds, aud
sales OF property made under that act and purchased
good faith and built upcs-
Mr. johnson does not appear to understand that even
scarcely have realized dollar, fictitious titles having
been ruIped up at Peter Funk sales purpOrting to
cover most Of the proposed extension. Could the
scheme have been carried through. men who should
never have control Of dollar because OF the evil which
money enables them 10 nct upon the communities they
curse would have fairly rlOted in il. For wonder it
did not CO. The Benicia Extension scheme is another
affair 10 put pap into the mouths OF the greedy suckers
who are looking forward TO its becoming the terminus of
great railroads perhaps ultimately the Pacific and At
hntc Ii will pay little the best steal in that case, Of
almost any thing out.
The idea which lately threw out about STAGE
ROUTE across the continent until the Railroad Is built
is more worthy Of serious reflection than first glance
would suggest and the reports from Sonora City,
In relation 10 the discovery OF route via Walkers RUer
and Pass which has recently been travelled reducing the
distance from Salt Lake City to Sonora City to only 90
miles and only $50 TO Steam Navigation, has produced
TN excitement Of the most intense character In that
region Gold dsgings have also been discovered and
are worked, east OF the Sierra Nevada range paying
we'll and large bodies of miners are vending their way
n thither This route is well watered grass the whole
year lovely climate wild fruits abundant can be
Travelled at all tines and only % es Of snOD crossing;
the alkaline springs and rivers, and the Desert are en-
tirely avoided by this route. The greater portion Is
nearly level and from the Nevada to San Diego nearly
dead level IL not this the Railroad routei Qs.en
Sobe With post houses aud relays, suitable arranged
see no reason why within twelve month we might not
reach New-York hence, within twenty 10 twenty-five
days and hare fine time oft too have crossed the
as 1888 doubt whether the difficulties unpleasant
Of this route would be any greater during eight
ten months OF the year. than those crossings from
Philadelphia TO Pittsburg and Wheeling Somebody
think abOutt
Makers Pass or Gap.-Fremont who passed this gap
m ,oso. yves the following glowing description of it:
"One might reyel" he says. "the world over without
"fnding valley more fresh and verdant-more hOra
"and sylvan--more alive with birds and animals-more
"bounteously wateTed than had left in the San Joa
"quin The air was filed with perfume as If we were
entering highly cultivated country; and instead OF
SCREEN our pathway and the mountain sides we're COW
cred with fields of yellow flowers which here was the
"preyaliDg color. Gooseberries were nearly ripe We
"were in the midst of an advanced spring. SNOW was
in sight the butte of the mountain, which irowned
"down upon US on the right; but We behed 1t now with
"feelnQs Of pleasant security, rode along between
"qreen trees and flowers with hummlng BIRDS aud
"o;her featherod friends Of the traveller envenng the
serene spring air Taking into consideration the nature
of the Sierra Nevada, found this Pass an excellent
"one for horses and with little labor, OF perhaps
"more perfect examination Of the localities, 1t might be
made sufficiently practicable for wagons Its eeyatiOn
swas not taken, our half wild cayalcade making 1t
"troubesome to halt before night when once started
The wagon route has been discovered and travelled
and al that is requisite proper opening OF the road
which will probably be effected this summer | am
acquainted with individuals whose knowledge oil TINS
region enables them TO confirm the recent Statements
and Who also received accounts from those who Travelled
il last year. confirming 10 all essential points, the later
discoveries Salt Lake City, therefore Is no longer
protected by the barriers of desert wastes alkaline and
burning springs and briny streams Ii is much nearer
the rest of creation than few mouths since and she
followers of the Prophet Smith viii soon lind their Sc
cuson broken in upon by the outsiders and Will not
be mar years before the scenes Of Missouri and ILL
nois will be re-enscted.
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