Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-07-16

Mr.. Thomas McNabb, at San Francisco,
has been successful in an attempt to ride two
hundred miles within ten hours. He rode
California stock entirely, forty two horses
having been provided for the occsaion. The
running commenced at Z o'clock in the morn
ing, and terminated at 5 o'clock in the after
noon, less thirteen minutes, leaving him win
ner of the wager of $500 by eleven and a
half minutes. Mr.. McNabb stopped to re-
fresh himself between the seventy first and
eightieth miles, and again between the one
hundred and eleventh and one hundred and
twentieth miles, occupying from four to five
minutes each time, and on another occasion
sat on the grass and rested for nine minutes.
The shortest time, of accomplishing any sin
gle ten miles was twenty six minutes, fifteen
seconds. The longest, thirty three minutes,
thirty seconds.
During the week, the city has been throng-
ed with strangers from the interior, bound
for the new gold mines on the Frazer river,
in the British Possessions. and our thorough.
fares resumed the stirring appearance of the
busy times of 1S5051.
The crop of strawberries, judging from the
profusion IN market, will be unusually heavy
this season. Tempting berries, from four to
six inches in circumference, are plenty, and
form the dessert at every restaurant.
The Frazer River Gold Mines,
All the California and Oregon papers are
filed with accounts Of and speculations upon
the new gold mines discovered upon the Fra
ger river, and surrounding regions. The ex-
pectations which the first discovery excited
seem likely to be even more than realized.
The latest accounts represent that not only is
there an abundant supply of gold, but that
good order prevails at the mines that the
Indians were friendly and peaceable. A gen.
tleman just returned from the mines, MIR
Lewis Lewis) reports to the editor of the
Sacramento Mercury, that he spelt seven or
eight days on and near the river, and was
well satisfied that the mines are immensely
rich; that he saw $500 which had been ia
ken out by one man in fourteen DAYS, and
that he was about Immediately to return,
taking his wife and family. He recommends
the Victoria route as the least expensive.
Oregon.
The Portland Times of the 9TH of June,
gives the following particulars of the late In
dian fight:
We have positive and reliable informa-
tlon that there were more than one thousand
Indians engaged in the attack upon Col. Step
toes command that the Indians hgd plan
ned an ambush, into which, had the command
been led, his whole force would have been
utterly lost; that he suspected tha device.
and varied his course in order to avoid it,
when the Indians commenced the attack ;
that the warriors, the fighting men of the
Spokans, the C@ur d'Alene priest, rode up to
Col. Steptoe just previous. to the onslaught,
and told him that the Indians were exasper-
ated, and resolved upon fighting, because
they had heard that road was to be laid out
through their country from Walla Walla to
Fort Benton, and they would massacre every
white man who attempted to pass through
their country on such mission.
Col. Steptoe's cammand escaped almost
miraculously, after fighting them almost
hand to hand for an entire day. He made
an unheard-ot and unpecedentedly rapid
and safe retreat, having made distance Of
eighty-fve miles within less than twenty
hours time, and that without the loss of &
man or an animal.
The Colonel lost two officers and five mer
killed, and fourteen wounded. He also lost
his interpreter, and friendly Nez Perez In.
dian lost fifteen men, and had about forty.
five Wounded."A