Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-01-01
THE NEWS FRo4 CALIFORNIA
The San Francisco Herald Of the 1st instant re-

finite character An accounts represent dreadful con-
don Of the public roads, and some anxiety Is felt for the
continuance Of supplies in the mnes account sf the
sudden closing in Of very ncemsnt winter The price
O provisions In the mountains viii undoubtedly be high all
the 1tpson but the miners will be able 10 afford high
"a IA nske handsome prohts reports be true:
nk 0&b& Az WGter felt no longer. The Thousand
I - - ~ gss n. e6s ler fshing alvantsgs 9
= 4 h ~ ~ 4 ssssts' ss's Y /
Shasta al 10 cents YToka 4 50 10 co. and a. Downis
vile at 40 cents the pound In all these regions the
snow was reported as about two feet deep.
The papers contain accounts Of the discovery Of new
and rich deposes Of the precious metal in various drec
tons In the town of Cooma gold had been found under
circumstances which caused quite an excitement among
its inhabitants. The Alta California says
q On Friday and Saturday last some parties who had
been prospecting in the principal street struck rich
lead which paid them from four to six dollars to the pan
and Immediately, the spread hundreds focked to
the scene and in few hours the whole street from one
end to the other staked out and claimed All these
claims being worked and most OF those who have
reached the rock get two to six and eight dollars the
pan others of happen the wrong spot and get
much less, sometimes next to nothing The bed rock
rises and falls like wave and it is only in the deeper
places that the rich depotes are found 1t is supposed
that the site of Coloma the bed of the south fork
of the American and that when it cut out new channel
the sand bank bar which the town is located was
formed by the action of the water However this may
be- things certain one, that there is gold there
and the miners taking it out the other that every
spot in the town, where gold supposed to be in quan
ties which win pay the search, is claimed by the
chants and miners of the place."
In quartz mining SO far as we form Judgment
from the papers before u.s. but little is doing but this is
apparently the result Of the absence of proper
chnery than of want Of confidence of the profabeness
of the business when properly conducted In relation to
this subject the Sonora Herald remarks:
"Quartz mining has been at dead standstill in the
vicinity Of Sonora for time past in consequence of
the absence of proper machinery and partly because
pasts have been afraid to invest where the chances Of
remuneration still uncertain, and where the strong
hand alone is the only valid evidence Of title.
NEARLY every hill in and around Sonora has been
bored in search Of godbearing quartz, in most cases
without any result further than disappointment to the la
borers Those who have made the attempt search in
the bosoms Of the mountains for the precious ore have
generally been poor men, without capital without proper
machinery and without what seems Indispensable, expe-
rience in such undertakings That they have failed to
not satisfactorily prove, to thinking, that we'll
organized companies wclapponted with implements Of
labor machinery, &c. cannot make the quartz veins Of
country pay.
aPor our own part we believe that one Of the most
fruitful sources of Cafornas wealthone of the most
stable and lasting pillars of her future prosperity-will
be found to be the bearing quartz Experience has
taught that the OF disappointed prospectors not
be depended upon Places condemned and abandoned
to-day being poor to pay for labor will be gladly
taken up and worked tomorrow and found to be remu
nerave too This has been our experience In placer
mining, and have sufficient to warrant us In be-
eyng that similar experience is in store for u.s. as far
as regards quartz mining"
The Californian says that in little while there win
remain to stranger but few evidences which could in
form him that less than four weeks since all Sacramento
was one entire ruin There not dozen lots the
principal streets which before the fire had buildings
them that not built being built upon And it is
the streets Every thing is almost before
the difference in the appearance Of the buildings and the
defalcations in the sidewalks" !"
The intelligence from Southern California is the Oath
Of November.
Information had been received San Diego Of FIRE at
Camp Yumas, which broke out the 26th Of October
which consumed the bakehouse of company H. with the
kitchens Of companies and H. with the guard tent Of
quartermaster and conmissary's store and contents
leaving the command nearly destitute Of provisions The
ammunition saved few barrels Of bread, and lit
tie meat. train Of ten wagons left San Diego the
18th of November with supplies for the camp.
The Los Angeles Star publishes account of the
der Of Gen. j. H. BEAM the commander Of the southern
militia in the vicinity Of the Mission San Gabriel He
wayaid and shot, and lived but twentyfour hours
afterwards The perpetrator Of the deed is unknown.
The Los Angeles records hostile proceedings Of
the Indians in the vicinity Of San Bernardno and mputes
to them the failure to fulfil the engagements made to them
by Mr. Wozencraft the Indian Commissioner.
The large drove Of sheep consisting Of 900 head in
troduced into the southern section OF the country
two months SINCE from New Mexico by the Senior Armo
Luna and Others has been purchased by Mr. b. F. Coons
who dispatched them for the upper country the 10Th
Of November
SAILING OF MIssIosARKs.-The barque Martha Clark
sailed from New York Monday for Sierra Leone West
ern Africa having board large company Of missonA
res, consisting Of the Rev. George Thomson with wife
and childrep. ,zi4h ard ona