Daily national Democrat., 1858-10-14
Fnrther from the North.

By the steamer Fremont, we have the
Humboldt Times of the 9th and Crescent
Herald of the eth:
THE New MINEs.-The Crescent CITY Her
aid says that the new mines near that place
are turning out even better than had been
anticipated We saw last week the dust
brought in by three men, the result of their
labor for thirteen days. 1t weighed eight
hundred and fifty dollars This gold is beau
full, being all coarse, and very pure. Among
it was one piece weighing within a grain or
two of four ounces, and several of nearly one
ounce weight 1t must be remembered that
at present there is but very little water where
this gold was taken out, the parties who rot
this in the time we have mentioned. having
only had sufficient for use about three hours
per day.
That these mines are very rich, and will
pay with little eXertion large amounts 50
soon as the rain comes, there is no longer any
doubt. They consist of series of gulches
making down towards n stream which is a
tributary Of the south fork of Smith river.
There are many of these gulches and all bid
fair to pay equally well with the one from
which most of the gold so far has been taken.
Twenty five miles travel from this, over a
good trail, brings a man to the big Flat
of Smith river and there he is in the centre
of this mining district. Mining in it is vet
in its infancy, but there is plenty of room for
all to work that wish to, and no spot in Cali
fornia at present offers as rich inducements
for an industrious man as this There is IL
good deal of excitement in town about these
mines, and we expect to see it deserted as
soon as it rains
The same paper says an excitement is IA
ging in town equal to the one created over
the State by the Fraser river fever. Every
where we see men buying picks, pans, shovels
and other necessary fixtures, and leaving
with rush for the Big Flat of Smith river
and the mines thereabouts The gold is
there sure AS soon as the water comes many
pile will be made.
New DIsCOvERIEs.--Sincet the article in re-
lation to Crescent City diggngs was in type.
says the Herald, another party have come in,
who report that they struck ten cents TO the
pan in the same vicinity we have before spo.
ken Of
SUIcIDE.-A man named Douglas, who kept
stand on the wagon road, near Crescent
ity, committed suicide recently bv shooting
himself with pistol. He was of very in
temperate habits
A party which has been engaged for some
time past in taking salmon at the mouth of
Smith river have been very successful. The
fish are very numerous, and could the neces
sary appliances be obtained, thousand bar.
rels month could be put up there. The
process of sating and preparing them for
shipment is very simple.
Apropos of salmon, we heard the other
day that these fish had been so thick on
Bradford's ford, on Smith river, that men
have to stop their teams to let the fish get
out of the way. The ford is about twenty
inches in depth.
The Jacksonville Sentinel says that two
men lHmed Cheronto and Christian, were
arrested there ON a charge of selling liquor
to the Indians They were fined $50 each.
A negro was also arrested for furnishing
powder to the Indians, but was discharged.
A man named Steiner was arrested at the
same place, for stealing horses from the In
dians. lie confessed his guilt, and was put
in Jail
INDIAN TROUBLES IN HuMBoLDT COUNTY
Major Rains, of Fort Humboldt, says the
Times, has sent out company of thirty five
men under command of Captain Underwood,
" operate against Ine hostile Indians.
quantity of army supplies arrived on the
Fremont and the company above was sent
out. Capt. Underwood will take up a posi-
ton in the neighborhood of Pardee's Ranch,
about half way between Union and the South
Fork of Trinity. BY the time a company or
two of volunteers, called out by Governor
W eller, also get into the field, the Indians
may begin to think the whites are in earnest
in the present case, and that their day of
plundering and murder is at an end.