The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-08-14

ragua the 10th ultmo The United States steam
figate Msrrimac Flag Officer Long, and United States
sloopof war Decatur Com Thatcher sailed from Paita
for Callao on the 10th ult
FURTHER FROM FRASER RIVER.
Correspondence Bulletin Hope
river, July 81
left here yesterday afternoon In company with Mr.
freeman the Unknown California express pioneer for
Fort Yale The river lined with miners but few
Of them working, the water being too high Those
who were at work making from two to six dollars
per day, in the banks. We spoke to all us we went
along and all cheerful and confident of good dig
gngs the water fell. We arrived at Hill 8
Bar about hafp nine o'clock, and found quite
town there, some two hundred being collected,
where had recently left only seventy But few
working, the old cause-high water preventing them.
The bar out of sight altogether It rather tick
sh work from this place to Fort Yale but with clever
Indians In the poed up In the dark reaching
me fort in about hour passing hundred tents ON the
sanks on the way.
There were some six hundred men at Fort Yale and
they making from four dollars to the
that is those who working. This is very the
average. Some working, however, right in the
sand banks making only from two to three dollars per
day But all seemed contented and sangune of
in getting gold when the river goes down.
Dry dggings being found, and at Spu2zem, In
dian village at the end of douglas Portage ten miles
above Fort Yale, the miners getting quite
gold Of which had down to Fort Yale in re-
turn for provisions.
Thompson Thompson river, learn that they had
to horse flesh up there and it being sold at
the Fort at four bits per pound There is plenty of flour
here at $36 per barrel also bacon at rs cents per pound
Quicksilver brings Sc per pound there Is plenty Of it
here great quantity having up from San Francis
co during the past week.
The river has risen here five feet during the past
two weeks, putting almost complete stop to all mining
its banks The crowd here hardly know what to do.
great many making packs to go out on the trail to
Thompson river. This morning about eighty started
down to Victoria to stay below until the river com
mences falling for good,
From Mr. Williams, who came down day before yester
day from Sailor diggngs, learn that there Is work
going there, the river having gone up some six feet
there during the past seven or eight days.
The same correspondent writes July 8:
Several persons arrived from the forks, and they
ported the actually starving they having moth
ing to eat but berries &c. The Indians there suf
eriDg also for the Of food strange il may
II the country open to free trade open trade,
there would have been plenty of provisions up there
this But the Hudsons Bay Company appear as If in
Sleep from which they do not wish to be awakened in
view of the strong necessity there exists Of their acting
vigorously and quickly.
AS far Fort Langley Fraser river is of the most
beautiful rivers in my life 1t is nothing like
- bad to navigate the Missouri half so danger
The river at this time is at the highest point it has
been this season. We passed great number of small
boats their way up counted them passed and
the number ninety-seven think each boat would
had board 800 passengers Eleven boats which passed
downward bound would average nine persons making in
all 80.
would advise all persons to remain where they are
until there Is known in regard to the mines than
there at present have but lot of dust and
that seventeen ounces and quarter There is gold
here beyond doubt, but to what extent toll
Below this place there is mining going at present.
From what have seen am pretty well satisfied that
go through until the river falls which will not
be until the latter part of September The at this
place is still the mountains. There arc from ono
thousand to fifteen hundred persons here at this time
What they will do until the river falls is hard for to
say for provisions high will give you the prices
of few articles Fresh beef cents per pound lard 60
cents butter ST. cheese, SO cents quicksilver ST. beans
cents -four $36 per barre bacon 70 cents per pound
sp $3 per gallon; wash pans, So apiece; gold dust SIG
per whiskey, So so per bottle; and everything
else in proportion.
CALIFORNIA ITEMS.
The total amount of gold coined at the branch mint
California, for the week ending July 10, was 80, ,eO3
ounces, 5000 000 and the depostcs So SOC
The amount of treasure shipped from San Francisco this
year TO July amounted to $25, ,526 467being $375,
907 less than for the same time last year.
Tho markets nre overstocked with fruit. Peaches,
aprcos cherries and melons have made their appear
ance in great abundance.
disastrous fire took place at orovlc in Butte county
on the 9th of July, which destroyed nearly the whole
business portion of that town The loss estimated at
from 5000, 900 to $500, 000
1t is stated that rich vein of mineral coal has been
discovered in Sonoa county about forty miles from the
town of Pealua The coal is described as being very
similar to the English camel coal
Fort Miller station for United States troops in Fres-
no county, has been abandoned, and the government
property there sold at auction on the 7th July.
On the 18th July the county treasurer of Mariposa
county robbed at Sacramento of 81 600 Of the public
funds he was conveying to the State treasury.
The troubles IN San Louis Obispo have been wellnigh
brought to close There have been no executions by
the vigilance committee since Moves Robes was hung
the 2Sth of June Jack Powers the leader Of the gang
of bandits, has escaped.
The Buckeye boys at Orleans fat Nevada county, took
out boulder weighing ~ pounds the 10th of July
One end of the boulder almost covered with gold
Its value is estimated at from 81 900 to So 000 Marks
Co offered &C. 600 for the lump but the boys refused
to SELL
New and rich dggngs have been discovered in Yuba
county. Three men in one day took out 81, 200.
San Andrcas independent Calaveras county, remarks
that the late exodus of worngmen from its part of the
State has caused very considerable rise In the wages of
certain classes of aboring 1t adds that good blast
ers in quartz mills are in demand ut x5 per day
strikers at 81. These men paid month ago.
$50 and $40 per month.
OREGON
No further Indian outrages recorded in the Oregon
papers, with the exception of attack upon prospect
Ing party Of miners, of whom however, killed
Tho confidence of the oregonans in the richness Of the
Fraser river mines appears to be undated New and rich
gold discoveries In Oregon also reported constantly
taking place.
WASHINGTON TERRITORY
Rich dggings have been found the Wenatshc river
by party of miners going overland Fraser but before
they could fully prospect the ground they attacked
by Indians and compelled to rcrcat They lost three Of
their men and killed fifteen Indians.
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