Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-08-19

From OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES st. Louis, from
Aspinwall afternoon of the Sd inst, arrived at
New York, Aug 1lth She brings California
dates of the Goth ult.
Nearly forty vessels left San Francisco be-
tween the third and nineteenth of July for the
new gold regions. Other gold discoveries are
reported further North on the other side of the
Matches Pass. The Olympian Pioneer states
that in the attack before reported of Indians
upon party of miners going up the Columbia
there were eighteen whites and upwards of one
hundred Indians killed.
There had been collision between the Mer-
ced Mining Company in Mariposa County, and
some of Col Fremonts men. The Mining
Company made an armed attack upon Fremonts
men, who were working lead quartz at Pine Tree
Drift. Fremonts men defended themselves,
holding tbs place with arms in their hands for
several days. Application was finally made to
the Governor, who was preparing to call out
the military, when the assailants withdrew,
leaving Fremont in possession.
The Democratic party in California were
making preparations for the September election.
There is a desperate contention going on for the
possession of the Nominating Convention, be-
tween the Administration men and the Douglas
Democrats, under the lead of Senator Brod-
erick.
Dates from Oregon are to July 10. The Leg
lature had chosen two United States Senators,
namely; Gen. Lane and Delazur Smith.
THE FRASER RIVER EXCITEMENT.
The San Francisco papers state that the Fraser
river excitement has received decided check,
and are evidently much gratifed thereat. The
Alta California says;
a." The readers of the Alta at the East will be
no less surprised at the sudden and extraordi-
nary fall of Fraser river stock, than they were
at its sudden and feverish rise. But all who
think, will perceive that there is as little reason
:. for the extreme of one as the other. There
were no sufficient grounds for the intense excite
! ment which pervaded all parts of the State,
and took away thirty thousand men to coun-
try about which very little was known, except
through uncertain rumor, and which all might
and should have known was not provided with
d the necessares of life, and which all the nfof-
motion had concerning it showed eonclusively
could not readily if at all, under the rule Of
the Hudson's Bay Company, be supplied sufi-
GENTLY to feed population of tens of thou
sands, thrown into all at once, like crew of
shipwrecked mariners upon desolate shore.
edge, what there was of it, away went thou
Y sands of men, earnest to make strike, and
when they found themselves in strange and
+ foreign land, provisions scarce, and the river
! high, they were disappointed and disguised at
condition of things which they knew, or
: might of known, ere they left California did
or would exist there. The opinion of such dis
4 appointed, disheartened and disguised men,
= who went off half-cocked, fell short of the
, mark, turned round this side of where the
e mines were reported to be, and now declare
there is no gold in all that vast section of coun-
try, not foot of which they have prospectcd.
, or, perhaps, seen, are of no more value than
are those of persons who, for a joke, or because
they have an interest to create and encourage
emigration, tell the most unreasonable stories
Z OF immense strikes and inexhaustible blazers
The fact is, the sudden fall of the Fraser river
excitement no moro proves the non-existence
: OF gold there than did the crazy fever that it
was there in unheard-of abundance The Hud
sons Bay Company have known of its exist
ence in New Caledonia for three or four years
at least. But had they wished it thoroughly
developed, doubtful question, the same DIFF
| ficulties existed which do now-the means Of
supplying food for miners beyond the Cascade
=. Mountains. 1t is, perhaps worse now, because
- that Company having the monopoly of trade,
e lack the inducements to enterprise that usually
i animates our own traders, and secures a
: ply supply of provisions and necessary tools
8 wherever there is gold to be dug, and man can
u go There may or may not be much gold in
e the great interior east of the mountains and
d north of the Colville mines.
u But the thousands of miners now waiting
near the Sound, and on the river below the
/ great canon, are not likely to thoroughly pros
o peet wild Indian country, where the Hudson Z
Bay Company cannot supply their wants, and
to which there is not yet known to be any GER
tain route for our people to do it. Should
the river fall sufficiently to allow the bars
to be worked, two or three months hence,
e we may know whether they contain gold
o in renumerative Notwithstanding not
2 sooner And as to the interior country, and
the bars of the river beyond the mountains, we
: need anticipate no extensity and reliable news
until some means have been found for supply
: iag food for those who wislfto try their fortunes
J, there. Before that event, it will not do to
! place any particular reliance upon any stories.
either for or against the existence of gold there
8 in great quantities