Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1853-09-01
California InteIIIgeucr.

Our news by the Northern Light mail
is of some interest.
The present season is highly favora-
bic to mining operations in all the gold
districts; the miners seem to be gener-
ally fortunate in possessing valuable
claims, which are yielding abundantly
by the use of improved means for ex-
tracing the metal. From present ap-
pearances, the total production of gold
for the six months commencing with the
first of June, will be larger than during
any similar period since the opening of
the mines.
The wheat crops in nearly all parts of
the State are suffering with rust, which,
it is said, will make the yield twenty or
twenty-five per cent. less than it would
have been otherwise. This, with the
present rates of -four, has advanced the
price of wheat considerably, and the
farmers will realize large profits from
their crops, Notwithstanding the rust.
Parties were arriving every week at
some point in California. On the 93d
July, Hugh Dickson, from Chillicothe,
Ohio, reached Downieville. He left
Fort Laramie, with two others, on the
10th of June, and reached Downieville
in forty days. Mr.. Dickson thinks the
emigration is heavier this year than it
ever has been, but a great many are
Oregon-bound. He left five hundred
wagons at Fort Laramie, waiting to get
on the north side of the river. He re-
ports great many families on the road,
and goodly number of young ladies.
He made some calculation of the num-
Der of cattle that would cross the Plains
for Oregon and California, and he is
sure that 800, 900 head would not be too
high an estimate.
The Humboldt was very high, and
emigrants were compelled to keep the
ridge road, on the north side, all the way
down. He passed through Salt Lake,
and found times hard and provisions
high. He passed Kit Carson on the
Humboldt, with 1000 head of sheep
The party came into Downieville by way
of Jackson's ranch. They met with |
ready sale for their animals at liberal
prices.
The Supreme Court of the State
made decision lately that will attract
and create some surprise to
the Atlantic States. The Court decided
that the mines of gold and other pre-
cious metals of California are the exclu-
sive property of that State; that the
United States have no interest in them,
and cannot exercise any jurisdiction over
them. The decision does not include
the lands containing the minerals, but
only the minerals themselves.
A DISGUSTING MoNsrER.-Dr. Grant,
visiting Mosul, thus describes Shereef
Pacha, the successor of Mohammed
Pacha:
He is, believe, the most hideous
man ! ever saw; four feet high, lame,
with only one eye, one ear and
half nose. His face, too, is most hor-
ribly SCARED with smallpox. His soul
IS the fit inhabitant of such body
He is perfect compound of every bad
oropensity-cruelty, craftiness. greedi-
ness, and lust. He cuts off heads,
people, throws others into the
for the sake of their !
but sometimes, as it would
'eem, merely for fun. 1 myself saw
him firing bombs among the people Just {
o enjoy their fright. Beside, this bor- I
i'd monster. when he hears of girls to
lis liking in any family, sends his 1
Iavasses to take them into his harem. !
The place would be deserted, but that :
lie has walled up some of the gates, i
md posted soldiers at the others, to pre-
.ent the people escaping from his
lutches. u