New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-07-09
lead and silver mine have been discovered in that

lead and silver mine have been discovered IN thai
| county.
The municipal election in Pacerriie has resulted in
h. n. victory.
From a table recently published, 1t appears hat
there are iy-four -four mills in this State, supposed
TO be able to turn out four thousand barrels oil hour
per day.: :.
sailing vessel the bark Fanny Major bound Tor
Australia She will take to the stage there, and VIII
aiterwsrd 60 TO Europe, via Chius Cslcutta and Be-
vasiopO
Tie clipper ship FLYING Cloud arrived on the 9Th
June after IA passage Of ZOE days This was her hfh
TIP to California and her average time has been lOl
days.
Mr Geo. n Briggs, of this city "a native of Smith
field, X. l., has invented steamboat wheel me pad
dies of which are movable, and 80 made as to
stand perpendicular long they are in the water
This invention has beea examined and approved ny a
number Of mechanics. He goes to New ork by tins
steamer, in order 10 get his invention tried on steam
boat
The clipper ship Metropolitan just after discbargng
her cargo and while taking in ballast csTeened over
so far that her ballast por went under water ana she
filed and sank at tie wharf She wss pumped out and
raised two days after.
On tie %, Joseph b. West, when trying to arrest
couple Of thieves tie Mission Dolores, was shot
snd killed by Of them, John Marion, snstiye OF
Alabama. Marion and his companion, Ferlandi
Brace from Indiana, uen escaped. The whole coun.
Try TUNED out TO hunt them down. Marion committed
suicide in Alameda County. Brace escaped
June, in the square bounded by Dupont, jackson,
Stockton and ashingtOn-sreeis- About twenty small
frame houses were burned, and az BRICK houses The
extent of The burned ground Jacksonstreet about
100 feet; on Dupont 100 feet, and many houses on
alleys in the center of the square burned. The fire
did not reach Washington-stIeet or Stockton. The
tenomerls burned were occupied almost all by Chi
Eese ard Spanish women. The loss il about O,O0O
DEAIH OF ORIs DERBY.-Mr. Ofin Derby, who
r,in over by waercart este : G,S oII
si., died tbs morning at O'Clock lie was ihsShsioie
for some hours before his death, ana expired, II Is
thoulbt without pam. His funeral takes place 10 day
AZ o'clock from What Cheer House, where nc
was carried after the accident. Mr.. Derby was ~
years of age, a native OF Niles Berrien county MGn-
ieaD, where he has wife and four Mite girls ne
had taken passage in the Sierra Nevada ior new
York with his son Seth Derby, fine little fellow, who
seems incopsolable at his bereavement. Mr. Derby
had been engaged in trading in Yreka for some time
and had worked in the mnes for the last two months
He had money enough TO get himself and son comfort
eblv home most Of which will be exhausted in the eX-
peuses Of the funeral. Robert Green, who was drlv-
mo the cart at the time has been arrested. Inc Cor
opers nrv had not rendered their verdict at clock,
but there is no doubt that the reckessness of Green
will be severely punished. San Francisco Herald.
MINING NEws.-1Re Cd!arerds Chronicle gives
cheering account of the prosperity OF the mines In that
county Murphy's has become one OF the most pros
nerous towns in the Southern district. Quarts mining
l. daily increasing and improving. At one CLAIM, near
North Fork $500 was taken out last week by SIX
men, Other claims in the vicinity were paying hand,
somely At one Sc 600 cash was offered and refused
for one fourteenth of the claim AT one of DR.. Hep
buns tunnels, Tunnel Hill, last weeks product
amounted to forty-four ounces. The other Is equally
rich These extend some four hundred feet through
the hill There are twelve ether tunnels through this
same hill. all of them paying well. AtJordon Co;
tunnel COO taken out in four days OF last week
There are four men in the company. The low rates
asked for water and the undoubted richness OF the
mnes in this county are daily attracting miners hither
and once they settle among us, they have no dspos
ton TO seek further New dggngs are being discover
ed and TO work them an abundance of water is always
obtsipabe Tie laws and regulations governing
mimi interests are liberal and efficient as IN any
district in the State and believe that proportion
to her population, Calayeras can boast OF more oiu