Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-09-17

onLirVhNiA NEWS.
The late arrival from San Juan brought San
Francisco papers to the 18th ultimo. The q Alta
California supplies summary of news since ths
departure of the previous steamer.
The general election largely engrossed pub,;c ~
enton the administration and opposition parties can
wasting the state from end to the other with
earnestness The public printing during the fiscal
ending June 1888 amounted to S28 547 or more than
half the officially estimated revenue of the State and nearly
equal to the amount which, according to the last annual
report Of the Comptroller should the entire
of the government per There various print
ing accounts not yet rendered which would raise the
gregate to something between $500 900 and $500 600
for the last fiscal year. This and other progate expen
dtures the subject of censure and it is thought
would give great strength to the opposition
We quote further from the Alta California of Au-
gust 10th:
The far-famed robber cheftan Joaquin was captured
and beheaded few weeks since and his head preserved
The public interest will be somewhat modified by the in
formation that this wonderful head was taken from the
shoulders of peban robber and that the real hero
of many romances, the vertabe Joaquin is quietly
enjoying the fruits Of his adventures at his native home
in Mexico
Intelligence from the North shows that there danger
of the Of Indian difficulties in that region
Many depredaons have been committed lately upon the
whites which will hardly so unreyenged
Peter Smith shot in the neck the Sd of August
by Capt Scott in duel, this city Smith died on
i
Daviss Mississippi regiment.
There have been number Of strikes among the labor
ers and mechanics The day laborers generally get
/ tag Sc and the mechanics from SO to $40.
A bill is before the Council to authorize loan Of
300 000to build school houses II will probably pass
spring capable of furnishing fifty thousand gallons
Of excellent water daily has been encountered in tunnel
of the Mountain Lake Water Company. 1t is thought
that within six months the company will be able furnish
10000 of gallons Of water daily in the city,
The editor Of the Alta California having visited the
4 pIa a.
still thirty three feet deep in the shaft and at one time
hundred feet deepnnety feet above the level of
the lake and two hundred and twenty feet above the level
of the The buckets employed in emptynp the shaft
go night and day, and pour about so 600 gallons in
twenty hours, but the water falls very slowly The
water is clear and ne and better than that of the lake or
of any of the adjacent springs.
| Copper containing ffty-fye per cent of copper
had been taken from newly undiscovered mine, between
Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, about nine miles from
| the coast
duce daily aggregate of 435 barrels six in the coun
try, about 275 barrels while many being enlarged
and new building the result of which will be
daily aggregate product of $50 barrels.
Very aterng accounts received from various mines
The San Francisco Herald reports that the taxable
pery Of San Francisco has increased within single year
from 49, $780, 050 orful sixty -four per cent
The Placer California; Times has the following
in relation to the survey Of the Passes in the Sierra
Nevada mountains:
"Senator GwIS returned to this city yesterday after
absence Of three weeks engaged in exploring the
IN the Sierra Nevada the junction with the Coast
Range His examinations have proved very satisfactory
lie assembled the dividing ridge which separates the great
Iuare and San Joaquin valleys from the valley that
tends to the Colorado river from which point Monte de
Dabo the north and the foot of the great Canon of
the Colorado-each three hundred miles distant
are distinctly visible With the exception of this divd-
ing ridge which be overcome by tunnel not ex-
ceeding mile and half in extent, a railroad can be
made from the Colorado river to Susun Bay without an
excavation enhancement, or bridge This Of course To-
Gates the road on the west side of Tuare Lake and the
San Joaquin river but the country east Of the lake and
river is of the most productive in the United States
is dead level, watered by dozen rivers and creeks
which must be brdged, but the expense viii be Of
consideration compared to the additional advantages that
will result from locating the road rich and popuous
a country.
81 Senator GwIN was accompanied in his explorations
;a v o i Y aed citizens
from yarons u the State all of whom entertain
doubt Of the entire practcabty Of this route for
great National Railroad The journey was attended with
great labor and exposure the intense of the sum-
when the thermometer frequently 125 deg in the
shade
"Senator GwIN met Lieut. w1LIIAMsoN's surveying
party at Fort Miller the Sd July The party left on
that day for Kings river where the party would divide
The one acting under Lieut. Williamson will make tho
rough survey Of Walkers Pass, and the other under
Lieut. Peake, will proceed to the TETON Pass survey it
accurately, and also examine great depression in the
mountain between Walkers and TETON Passes where the
pass eltner cnn be found.
Williamson will then proceed to the Colorado and down
that river to the mouth of the Ga making thorough
examination Of the great valley and desert between the
sierra Nevada and coast range Of mountains to the Colo
RADIO lie will then continue his survey from the mouth
Of the ella to San Diego, where his party win be dsband
ed This is one of the most important exploring parties
ever organized under the Government the most bene
hcia results must flow from it. 1t is confidently expect
ed that the report of this party will be made time for
the action of Congress at the begnnngof the
Lieut.. WILLIAMSON commenced his survey and passed
through Lyermores Ranch, where he discovered canon
several hundred feet below the usual wagon road This
matter of great Importance the people Of San Fran
CISCO offering it does that the National Road
when completed must terminate the great CONNER
cial metropolis Of the Pacific
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