, 1857-09-11

represents IS greater than any since Is5a
and as coming with unusual success ~
good health. Two thousand head Of "o, %
tie were at the Big Meadows and man
thousand were yet to arrive.
Several quartz leads were discovered br
Mr.. Hamilton in Indian Valley. which
lprospected well, and which is estimated ItO
yield $40 to 500 per ton. .AT'f"
On the 18th August, q man, while On,
hunting on the west side of Butte Croet "
mile from the crossing of Sacramento Val
ley road, ria Dogtown, to Honey Lake
discovered the remains Of a man. Nearb ~
was found memorandum book written y
German; also, parts of two letters written
BY Thomas Frazier, dated Longs Bar
Nov. 1856; enc directed to Hugh lIeCalsr
and one TO Valentine Macintosh, RurpEs
City, Sierra county; also naturatization
papers of Frank Gierl, when at St, Louic
Missouri, October 25th
Mrs. Cunningham Again. .
Speaking of the re-arrest of this motor.
GUS lady, the San Francisco 7Spn Tall of
Sept LIST says: "The Burdell mystery hs,
had another chapter added to it, the effect
of which in all unprejudiced minds wilr7be'
to produce the impression that Mrs Cuo.
ningham was certainly an accomplice n Eie
Doctors murder"
Mrs. CUNNINGHAM RE-ARREsrEp.-Tb
excitement in the Burdell murder case has
been revived in New York by the arrest
of Mrs Cunningham, on charge Of hay.
ing simulated pregnancy and pretended To
be delivered Of child, with view 10 its
inheritance of the property Of DR.. BurdelI
whose widow she claims to be. The dis.
closures leading to her arrest were made
in curious manner, aud their details occu.
py large space in the New York papers
The act in question is felony under the
law of New York, but as it was discovered
before it had proceeded to the length ofin.
stituting claim for the property on be-
half Of the infant, it is Hpprehended that
Mrs. Cunningham will not meet the pun.
ishment so richly her due. We copy a
concise account of the affair from the New
;. York Tines "For some time Mrs. Gun.
ningham has given ont to the world thai
early in August she expected 10 become q
mother-the fruit Of her union with the
late DR.. Harvey Burdell. To attend her
in that interesting situation, she applied to
DR.. Uhl, and after several visits the Doc.
tor, entertaining suspicious as to her really
being eacieaie, conGded his doubts to the
District Attorney. An ingenious plan was
then devised for the detection Of the crime,
if any were contemplated. DR.. Uhl re.
turned to Mrs. Cunningham, and pretend.
ing to be in her confidence, drew from her
the admission that the projected birth vas
a humbug. He moreover, was offered by
her $1,000 il he would Gud a newlyborn
| infant to assist at the dccouehcmeat. This,
: under the direction Of District Attcthey
= Hall, was cfIectually done. On Monday
last Mrs. Cunningham received from .
house in Elm street the child Of q poor
woman in Bellevue Hospital; the 'confaleI
mept takes place the same evening, ac'
cording to rule; an aceOueheur CDR. Catlnl
and nurse are in attendance; and
i while, with mothers love, she is fondling
her 'newly-born' infant-enter police Oh.
f GERS, who change somewhat the denOnsneH
q Of this curious drama Mrs Cunningham,
DR.. Catlin, the accOueheur, and the nurse
have all been orrestcd on the charge oi
, feloniously pretending that Mrs. Cunning
ham had given birth to a child who would
be catttlcd to inherit the property Of The
c late Harvey Burdell. .,.i ..;.,..
> GsO~ The U. S. Attorney General has
= given an opinion in favor of Capt. Wilkes,
in an action of trespass for an assault com
f mittcd on one Of his men during the e.
;. petition. rol
S HE- Richard Boylston, one Of the Oldest
Il newspaper editors in New Hampshire, died
+ at his residence in Amherst on the 18Th
D July, aged IS years.
RD- About twenty German children
were poisoned by lozengcs scattered along
the streets Of Cincinnati, recently--two Of
the children died. 40
: bds- Commodore Newton Of the Y. -
. N. died at Washington on the 2Sth JOY
E of paralysis. He was in good health up~
the instant Of the attack.
bG- A Southern Convention was nelo
, at Old Point Comfort. The project o
5 Dudley Mann to establish line oil steam
f ships between Norfolk aud Europe vSs
; indorsed. -'c- '-
Bar A number Of Walkers officers sr'
rived at Boston on the 29th July, oy NV
Cyane. The ship Roanoke had z4v o' Wv
men who were TO come TO New YORK
pGS A prize fight for $1,000 took Plls' PSs
: on the lst August at Point Ablno' VaD.SSs D.SS
between two Philadelphia men named D'aU
ley and Rankin the former was VlcIOf'
l rS- A cricket match came of bstvseSs
the New York and st. Georges Viu0o S.tS
that city, and was concluded on ths ana
July. The St. Georges Club won u O"'
innings and 81 runs to spare. - i'-a'l
Hss- The Tehuantepec Company 70 NV y.
, Orleans have dissolved, and although ~. ~,
, southwestern papers talk largely :. an an