Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-07-28
The Frazer's River Gold Nines-Overland
Roufe 20 them-New Caledonia.


San Francisco dates to July 9TH state that
the Frazer's River gold excitement continues
without abatement, and the reports from the
new gold fields are getting to be quite fabulous,
even TO Caliiornians. Victoria was crowded with
Americans, and real estate sPecuIatiOns were
having the same run as the gold fever.
The people of st. Paul and vicinity have been
touched with gold excitement. and are taking
steps to organize overland expeditions to the
mines from Minnesota. Meetings have been held
lat St Paul, and reports made which show the
distance from St Paul to the gold mines on
Frazer's River 10 be 1850 miles, and it is esti-
mated that in view of the facilities afforded by
the face of the country, and continuous line
Of Hudson Bay COmpany's posts, this journey
can be accomplished in seventy days, at an ex-
pense to a company Of ten persons, of $50
each. The region of country through which
this route TO the Pacific passes, besides being
well watered, well timbered, and aboun3ing in
game, as well as being the most feasible eros
sing Of the Mountains, is also the healthiest Of
any which has yet been traversed. These facts
are shown in the report made by Gov. Stevens,
TO the War Department, of the route he sur
veyed for a railroad to the Pacific. Gov S.
states that the Frazer River gold tract extends
into our possessions as far down as Southern
Oregon, and it bids fair to prove the richest on
the continent
In turns out that the Imperial Government
had information of the important gold discOv-
cries in the British possessions on the Pacific,
before they had attracted much attraction in
Canada or the United States, and that prepara-
tons have been some time in progress for the
establishment of new colony in that region
A bill has been introduced by Sir Z. Bulwer
Lytton, Secretary for the Colonies, to provide
for the government, until 1862, of New Gale
donia, the name of the colony on the Pacific
1t empowers Her Majesty to appoint Cover
nor ana establish a Council and Legislature in
the territory bounded on the South by the Amer
lean frontier, On the east by the watershed of
the Rocky Mountains, on the North by the 55lh
parallel of latitude, and on the West by the
Pacific, Including Queen Charotte's Sound, but
not NancOufeEs 4sluuus WHICH, Aliy AONONSis
be incorporated with it, upon an address from
tie Legislature of that, at present, independent
colony.
The report comes from England that Sir Al
Ian MacNab, of Canada, is to be the first Cover
nor of New Caledonia, but the Toronto Globe
discredits it.
Sir E. Bulwer LyttOn in his instructions 10
Gov. Douglas, at Victoria, as to his conduct in
the present rush of immigration to the mining
region, states that it is no policy of the Govern
ment to exclude Americans or other foreigners
from the gold fields, and directs that no obsta-
cles are to be opposed to their resort thither
for the purpose of digging in those fields, so
long as they submit themselves, in common
with the subjects of Her Majesty, to the recOg-
milton of her authority. The national right to
navigate Frazer's river the Government re-
serves.
New Caledonia, in the main, was surrendered
to the British, by Mr.. Polk's ingorious backing
down from q 81 40 or fight" The surrender
was made under the auspices of Mr. Buchanan,
then Secretary of State, and of Mr.. Cass, who
was leading member of the Senate which rat
flied the treaty of surrender.