, 1857-08-14

Hills" and that the total gain of white
nopulation by immigration for the three
months ending June 3lst is less than three
thousand.
The failure of California to meet her
JAY interest, was by no means unanticipa.
ted, Tie oaIy consolation left is, that the
next news which goes forward will create
an unexpected favorable opinion regarding
the condition of finances, inasmuch as the
State is not now running in debt.
d The last Oregon Statesman Says that
Iteu Cinnamon came up from Crescent
city on the steamer before the last, and
INCREASING an outfit, have gone to the San
tam mines, 1t is thought they can make
from three to five dollars per day there
1fthey are successful, it is probable that
they will indhce others to come up, and
before year from this time Marion and
Linn Counties may have hundreds of Chi
hamen within their borders aa ..r
j The President has offered to Col Jack
Hays the appointment Of Surveyor General
Of Utah. l7
Thomas W. Sutherland has been ap-
pointed Collector at Sacramento
A Washington correspondent Of the San
Francisco Daily Globe, in letter dated
July 4th, says.
Intelligence has reached the Depart
ment here that the Wagon road, are being
prosecuted with vigor, and if artesian wells
be sunk over snch portions where at pre-
sent water is not to be found, except that
which is too alkaline for use, your folks
must be satisfied for the present Capt.
Pope, Of the army, has demonstrated that
there is no difficulty of sinking such wells,
as in every case where he experimental, he
met with marked success"
The California mines are yilding their
usual returns, and business generally, in
that state is looking up.
The OTHER SIDE OF THE LAND-The
states papers are filed with the usual
compliment of Steamboat explosions, rail.
road accidents, fires, casualties, murders,
hanging affairs. riots, mobs, and crimes in
general which generally occupy so large a
space in their columes. ,.4ia
90 The following is compiled from telegraph
10 dispatches of theN Y Herald, of July
5h. .l7..t.. ...
A FEARFUL DIsAsTER-THREE HUNDRED
AND FiFTY PERsoNs BuRNr AND DRowNEp.--
The burning of the steamer Montreal, 10
the river st Lawrence, on Saturday July
,lth, was one ofthe most ,deplorabIe disas-
tes that we have been called upon to re.
cord for long time The Montreal left
Quebec at o'clock in the afternoon for
Montreal having on board between four
and Eve hundred passengers. nearly all Of
them emigraRts, and many of them recently
from Scotland. About o'clock, when
abreast Of Cape Rouge, the wood (work Of
The furnaces was discovered TO be on fro,
and at the same moment the flames burst
forth, causing the utmost conformation.
The flames spread with great rapidity, and
numbers Of the passengers precipitated
themselves into the river, and many in such
cases we're drowned The steamers Ma
pceon and Alliance went ter the rescue,
mdthe former took of one hundred and
msutySeven. Several of these subsequent
y died Of their wounds, 1t is thought
Probable that some Of the passengers may
| nave reached, land by swimming Captain
| Rudolph, of the Montreal, and the pursei
HaRatO the Alliance and were saved. igi
| a,Gc,A Washington despatch states that
| steaty with Nicaraguais is under consider
alton, having for its object the re-opening
| athe transit route. The steamship com.
| nOdcres are, il is said, entirely ignored as
| fgands this matter. r'll 'ais .',so ,'s's
| - A special despatch from Washing
"a states that arrangements are in prog
| Ns tor the speedy settlement of the gu es
| aUesle dispute between the United States
A0a New Granada, upon basis perfectly
satisfactory to our government
rive Of the persons engaged in the Plus
vsy election riot at Washington on II,
si'' OF last month have been convicted
Ro Of them had fed from justice; thc
| voc. @ three were sentenced to one year.
@pr'onnent and fine of twenty dollar
each. 80
| .. The missionary party, numbering
NY IN all, sent'out by the Mormons, reach
@ouaha, Nebraska, about the 18th inst
| lucy left Salt Lake City about the lst Q
| nay and travelled the whole distance OF
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