Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1853-03-24
California News.

! hoM The MINES.-We extract the
following summary of mining intelli.
gence, from late California papers bro't
by the Uncle Sam:
Mining intelligence generally is of
the most cheering character. The wea-
iher has become settled, dry and pleas
ant, and the road accessible to teamsters
Throughout; the State. We look for a
prosperous, and to the miner profitable
season.
The general introduction Of water,
through fumes and canals, to the dry
diggiDgs, removes the great obstacle
heretofore felt by the miners in working
their claims during the dry season.
Through the North and South, fumes
have been completed for scores of miles
in extent, and are carrying the aqueous
element from creeks and rivers into the
mining camps, where il is needed as an
indispensable means of extracting the
ore. No stock Of these companies is
now offered in the market, the anticipa-
ted profits being so large as to induce all
who have shares TO retain them. About
ten days since, shares in one Northern
company the Bear Valley Coz were
sold al 90 per cent. above par.
Some specimens Of emeralds and rus
bies and large diamond of the first
water have been found in the mines.-
The mines about Placerville. says the
FL Dorado News, are doing extremely
well. Old Hangtown Creek is being
worked over again, from one end to the
other. few days since the joint earn
ings of three men, for one day, amoun>
ted to S2,950. Yet the identical spot
out OF which this was taken had been
worked over at least four times. Cedar
Rayine, which empties into Hangtown
Creek, about midway of the town. is
again discharging its glittering treasures,
and we have been assured by the most
reliable authority that no miner on it, If
he exercises ordinary industry, will fail
to make less than from eight to ten dol~
lars per day.
quartz mining company at Eureka,
it was said had sold its lead to an Eng
lish Company for $4,000. This place
is in the neighborhood of Poor Mans
Creek, tributary of the South Yuba.
THE RoBBER JoAQuIN.-The papers
are nearly filed with accounts of MUIR
ders and depredations committed by n
Mexican named joaquin, of whom VIC
find the following account IN the San
Francisco Whig:-
joaquin was born in the Villa de Ca
torce, in the department of Jalisco.-I
He is aged about 35 years, and has
ranked among the most crafty and dar-
ing guerillas Of Mexico. He is a chief
of a notorious band-of robbers now in
Testing the vicinity of the city of Mexi-
CO, and though living in California has
regular chain of communication with
his associates in his native country
He has been known 10 enter the capital
cities disguised as a friar-has been ar
rested several times, but through the |
expenness and influence ne welded
among the soIdiery, he has been dis
charged.
He is about six feet in height. and of
immense muscular strength; is well
versed in the use of arms and in dispo
sition cruel and sanguinary. He has
dark. sallow complexion, and during the
Mexican war was known to wear a coat
of armor. He has committed number
less murders, has burned many ranches,
and has resi- ed in San Francisco. He
has frequently obtained information of
hexicans leaving California with mon-
ey, who have been dogged and robbed
by detached portions of his band. In
some instances they have been robbed
on their arrival at Mexico-the news of
their departure, and the sums of money
they had about them, having been for
warded by means OF his associates liv-
ing along the road. Joaquin belonged
to the band of guerilas commanded by
the famous Padre Juratta, who was cap
tured and shot during the Mexican war.
II is alleged that Joaquin wears coat
of mail. which is bullet proof, beneath
his dress, and that he has several times
been struck with balls, but has thus far
escaped unhurt. {
The Sacramento papers Of the 18th
of February contain long account of h
an unsuccessful pursuit OF this robber, /,
of which the Alta California makes the =
summary:
On Friday last, the citizens of Jack
sonville brought in the dead body of Mr.. :, r
Lake, a butcher, of that place, and Ia
1ody of a Chinaman, who was wounded j
oy a pistol ball. II was not known who a
lad committed these outrages. On the '.
lext day, Saturday, three Cinnamon "
we're killed between Suffer and Jackson. m
distance of some four miles. The ii
river Of the Stockton stage and two q
,assengers were killed on the same day 4
y Joaquin and two others, supposed to To
e Mexicans. The three men were .
hot and the horses taken from the
tage. to
On the same day, the same parties v