The daily Butte record., 1858-08-04
The P"""m" and Oregon from tn
North.

The Panama and Oregon from the
North.
The above named steamers arrived from
Victoria at San Francisco. on Sunday last
They brought about &74 600 in coin and
S25 600 in dust, Of which litter 80 900 be-.
longs to the Hudson Bay Company.
On Saturday the oregon. according to n
telegraphic disratch in the Union ran on "A
rock at Point Reyes, which rs some twenty
miles north of the entrance 10 the harboT,
but got off without great deal of damage.
although she nearly cnpsized. The Tassen
gers becnme panic stricken. One account
states that ms tie vessel careened, between
fifty and sixty Of those in the steerage were
wnshed or precipitated into the sea While
another statement is, that the ship struck
twice, and as she was backing If about fifty
of the passenger jumped overheard ID escape
on the recks. Their cries were heard as the
vessel sailed away. Those who tenr the
worst. think at lenst thirty lives have been
lost but it is to be hoped they oil escaped on
the rocks.
The pm ser treats it lightly ms follows
"At II 80 pm. touched on Point Reyes
backed off at ~. Some fifteen or twenty
passengers jumped on the rocks. Damage
slight; ship easily kept free from the
pumps"
The orly one known Of those wrecked i.
Ber jamin Smith. of San Francisco
No big strikes have taken plnce on Lower
Frazer river. 1t is said that prospecting
nbout Fort Hope has yielded from five to
thirty cents to the pan. but il must be done
vi der difficulty, ms the prospectors fnd the
color and then repeat: '"Only wait till the
water falls"
The river is now three and one half feet
below high water mark, and declining. Log
houses we're being built for the winter
| Upper Frazer is the point Of attraction.
The whole upper country is reported to be
rich in coarse gold A Correspondent Of the
! Victoria Gazette says:
Joseph hammere, French trapper of
great intelligence, informs me that he pros
pected with tour others from where the Lii
tyw,t trail strikes Frazer river. sixty miles
up, finding gold in every instance, and on
his trip Of five days making for his share.
one fifth. $l6S. They went up on one side f
The river aud returned on tho other Most
OF the goIdswas from dry diggings and in
Jumps averaging two bits.
The trail from Whatcom is believed TO be
| abandoned. The engineer has acknowledg
ed the impossibili'y Of getting through by
the way thus far pursued. on account uf in.
reached and the b, igade trail. which be
came in sight of but cond not reach. Ii he
should succeed in making the road it would
be over, two hundred miles loug. and fifty
miles Of il covered with water six months ia
The year, MIR. DeLacy was to make one
more effort by diyereiug from his original
plan.
Outing speech at Victoria, Gov. Douglas
said:
Il will not say there is lots Of gold on
Frazer river, because am not cer,ain of the
fact myself; hut MY settled opinion is that
the country is full of gold aud tha, east and
south and north OF Frazer river. there is u
gold field Of incalculsbe value aud extent
The route by Harrison river is the best, We
are preparing roTi that way and expcct
10 sec teams On the twenty mile portage be,
lore many months. | merely give you my
opiniopa Co on aud p1 aspect aud in few
weeks you will be able to tell me what Fra.
yer river is'
The orovile man whom the negro shot at
Yiclorin is no, yet dead.