Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1853-03-10
ARRIVAL OF THE
Alb TROSS.

BY the steamship Albatross, Captain
Mcneil, we have received files of Sal
Francisco papers TO the Is, inst.
The followins steamers left San Fran
cisco the LIST inst.
The Tennessee. carrying the mails
and the Cortez, for Panama; and the Pa
cifc, at Q A. M, for San Juan del Sud.
The census returns for California CIV,
as total population of the State, 224,
435; acres of land in cultivatian. no.,
74S; capital invested in quartz mining
S5,s7 ,405; placer mining, Sf,l74,4l9
other mining operations, 1881 ,623; fol
other purposes, Sal ,06l,9
~ FROM STOCKTON.
| The tunnel company at Douglass
are taking out from $500 TO $4,000 a
day. At Carson's many are taking ou
three ounces day.
Great excitement existed in Calaveras
county in consequence of the depreda.
tions committed BY band of Mexican
marauders, led by man who had been
concerned in the murder of four Ameri.
cans. He levied his .black mali gen.
orally upon the Chinese population.-
With his band he would enter their tents
and compel them to furnish him with
money and cook for him and his accom-.
plices whatever food they required. A
party of FIVE men came upon their camp,
where there were twelve of the robbers
with large number of animals.
Finding they were not strong enough
to make the attack, they returned to San
Andres for an addition to their force
In the meantime the robbers proceeded
in the nigh, time) to the Phoenix Mills.
Two men were asleep in the house a,
The time. but were awoke by the firing
of guns by the Mexicans. Both of them
were killed, though not until they had
NOR tally wounded one of the gang. The
robbers then lef:, leaving their wounded
comrade TO take care of himself. He
crawled to a tent SO me distance down
the river, but was tracked by his blood
on the following morning and disposed
of by the enraged people. Joaquin, as
we understand committed other ou,ra.
ges on the same night. On the mozpiDs
after, some 800 armed miners assembled
and despatched bodies of armed men to
the ferries on the Stanislans and Calaver.
as, so as to proven. their escape, and
then commenced a systematic search for
Joaquin and his associates. At the same
time they resolved to burn the habita-
lions of the Mexicans indiscriminately,
deprive them of the arms they might
have in possession, and give them all no
tice to quit.
We are glad TO hear tina. one of the
gang has been caught a. Yankee camp,
and another at Cherokee Ranch. Both
were immediately strung up.
The entire Mexican population has
been driven from San Andres aud the
forks of the Calaveras.
The Placer Herald of Saturday says:
On Thursday last, Messrs. S. p. Og.
den & Co., took from their claim in
Hughes Ravine, near Ophir, lump of
pure gold weighing 80 ounces, $l4 so.
also 81 in fine gold. This was all taken
out in half day. Nearly 5000, Ger.
,ainly apleasant mornings recreation.
On Wednesdaythere was another lump
:akor- out near Ophir, weighing twenty
ounces.
One day this week there was forty
ounces of gold taken out of one claim in
Dogs Flat ravine.
The weather for the past week has been
very favorable 10 mining operations, tie
weather being dry and the water in the
ravines sufficient for all demands, conse-
quenty the miners have improved the
opportunity, ard the result of their labor
has been amply remunerated. In the
nelghborhoods of Ophir, Doiy's Flat and
Gold Hill, il has been remarkably sue.
cessful week. We hear of numerous
Jumps being taken out in those localities
within few days past.
A correspondent from Ophir. under
date of January 18th, says:
The miners are doing extraordinary
well, and pretend to have some knowl-
edge of what | am saying, | do think the
miners in this vicinity are realizing a
much greater average than the same mum.
Der in any other community in Califor-
MIA. The miners in the main ravine "a
bove and below this place, and those OF
Dutch rayine, Hugh's ravine, Hamburger
fiat, Do,y's fiat, Red ravine, North raylne
and Spanish ravine, and many other srib-
utaries of the main Auburn rayine, sup
ply themselves from this place, and on a
Sunday. when all are congregated to-
gather, Ophir is perfect beehive of a
town.
A party of some eight men, at Lynch's
rancho, Yuba county, caught an old Indi.
an chief at Frenchtown, who they heard
had been making threats because of the
previous killing of some fifteen or twenty
Of his tribe. and deliberately took him
out and hung him. This of course, says
the State Journal, in the language of po-
lite, refined and civilized butchery, could
not be denominated murder.
How 1T Is DoNE.-The following is
the copy of an extract from letter from
a commercial house in New Orleans TO
a partner in Louisville:
New ORLEANS, February Ia, p. NJ.