The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-12-06
BY TIE OVERLAND MAIL

Among the passengers by the last mail were Mr..
NJ. Kibbin and Lieut. Mowry. From them the St.
Louis Republican gathers the following items:
Lieutenant Mowry left the gold mines on the 4tll
OF November, at which time about $50 men were at
work there, making on an average from seven to
ten dollars per day though they use the widest in
strumentS Gold has been discovered on both sides
of the ella river for distance of several miles be-
ginning about twenty miles above Fort Yuma. 1t
has also been discovered some sixty miles above the
present diggings. The Overland Mail Company are
running extra stages from Los Angeles to the mines
for the accommodation of emigrants
A town has been laid out called Gla City, and
buildings are rapidly going up for three miles on
each side of the mail route, which passes through
the town. The miners are engaged in their opera
tIOns from three quarters of a mile to two miles
from the Gila. which stream affords plenty of water
for washing the gold. Our informant brings seve-
raj hundred dollars in gold from these dggugs, ola
very line quality, and much resembling that OF the
uba river in California Some of the pieces are
worth from fifty cents to two dollars. Nuggets
worth twelve dollars are not unusual. Up to the
4th inst, five thousand dollars worth of the ore had
been taken out, previous to which time the dig
gings have been known but two months.
Every part of the country yet prospectcd in the
vicinity of the mines has proved auriierous and
the opinion is current among old miners that no
richer surface dggngs exist. even in the most IA
vored portions OF California.
Placers have even been worked at the Santa Rita
copper mines, five hundred miles in a direct line
east Of the Arizona diggngs.
AS the mines are located on neutral ground be-
tween that Of the Yuma and Pimos tribes no dan
ger is to be apprchended from hostile Indians
The Sonora Silver Mining Company was smelt-
ing about one thousand ounces per week.
The Patagonia, San Antonia, Pacific and Santa
Rita Companies are actively at work Lieut.
Mowry brings several fine specimens Of silver from
these mines. He says the supply is almost mex
haustible and in fact in such abundance that it is
oittimes knocked out of the ground by the feet of
travellers horses.
On the ella river and its branches, and on the
Santa Cruz San Pedro, and Mimbres there is suili,
cient agricultural land to sustain population of
several hundred thousand. The land is very rich,
producing two crops annually. All the cereals
fruits, &c, grow finely; and for grape culture it
equals Southern California. As grazing country
between the Rio Grande and Santa Cruz, it is un-
excelled by any land in the world-grass growing
finely in the winter in the summer.
The population Of the territory is from twelve to
fifteen thousand The vote cast for Delegate was
2,S52. Two years ago, at the last election of Dele
gate from New Mexico, Mr.. OterO and Mr.. Baird
Polled l,6Oo votes in the Rio Grande portion of
Arizona.
Arizona recevesgno protection of any kind from
New Mexico. The country is entirely without law
except one court of inferior jurisdiction at Mcsila
In the entire region West Of the Colorado for six
hundred miles there is authority higher than that
OF Justice of the Peace, who is elected by the
people.
The towns are governed on the old Mexican plan
The road from San Francisco to Texas is in good
condition.
The first mail from Albuquerque to California
over the 35th parallel, when about sixty miles out
from the former place, was ordered to 60 down on
the AriZonia route to Pmos and from thence into
California by the Buttertied route. The emigrantS
who turned back unable to make the trip, report
that their mules had gone five DAYS without water
The people of Sonora received Americans with
hospitality and confidence and seemed to be in no
fear Of fillibuster demonstration. We learn that
the people of Arizona keep up an active trade and
intercommunication with them. and design no in
reference with the SOno"ians or their officers. An
assurance that the United States will make good
the claims that have arisen from Indian depreda-
tions will induce them to consent to annexation to
the American Union. These claims now amount to
eight ten millions of dollars. The people of So
found their claim for reparation upon that
clause Of the treaty Of Guadaloupe IIidago which
promised the inhabitants of the frontiers of Mexico
immunity from attacks of the Indians.
Capt. Stone was progressing successfully with
his surveys, under the present contracts authorized
by Government.
Mr. Franklin reports the Camanches as some
what troublesome, although they are not organ
lied in bands sufficiently large to occasion much
alarm.
Mr. Edwards, one of Lieut.. Beales party, arri-
we'd at Fort Smith, reports the expedition all well
and in camp on the south side Of the Canadian
Lieut.. Beale would proceed to Albuquerque as soon
as the escort, which is a short distance behind
overlook him.
The mail from Neosha to Albuquerque was at
Lieut.. Beale's camp. Col Ross was in the neigh
the examination OF the surveys towards the No
have and Tim