The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1858-07-22

LATER FROM THE EAST.
ARRIVAL OF THE s.FANNY MAJOR
The California packet bark Fanny Major, Ca
John Patty, arrived off the port on Sunday 7. NJ.
thirteen days from San Francisco
w compile our usual summary Of freign inael
gence.
Prices of labor and seamen's wages in San IRA
cisco appeared to be fast approaching the extfeI
rates which ruled in forty-nine, owing to the RI
fer Frazier River. 1t is reported that the JMdj
paid six dollars per diem while loading for Honolul
and that elongshoremen'' were demanding scye
The Flying Eagle paid fifty dollars a man by t
run to this port Six hundred dollars was paid
the run to the United States from San Francisco.
Pacific Side.
FROM FRAZIER RIvER.-The reports from the min
are all confirmed. Gold is found on the river bar
also on the banks, and as far back as he mine
have prospected. Everything is all excitement
Miners coming from the :" diggings'' have plenty
dust, get their supplies and start back for the mine
All those who have come down report the miners
be making from $25 to 500 per day to the ma
This seems Incredible; but such are the facts. The,
statements | learn from reliable men, @d l have !
object in stating anything but facts.
There is a great strife among s,seculators which wi
be the San Francisco Of the North. But from VIII,
1 Cdu 4tcdIus DciiilSudiH DAY VIII DC Tue U1 OlI1,
all Americans prefer to be on their own soil.
Everything is free to land at this port, at this tim|
but how long they will remain so, the people here a
unable to say. All liquor dealers are required to ta1
out a license of 5000 a year, payable in adranee.
The correspondent Of the San Francisco Bullea
says There were some 10 men camped at Fl
Hope, bound up The same afternoon about SD
down, a difficulty occurred two and a half miles !
low Fort Hope, between a party of white men
were in two canoes, and the Indians-in which ,
Indian chief of the Harrison river tribe was shot VI
a revolver. The Indians in return shot one of J
party, who fell overheard; but whose body was fol-
an hour or two Afterwards on the beach, stripped
already mutilated by crows. 1t appears that e
boats stopped at the bar where a number of Indts
were mining, and in getting out one of the 81
stepped OF the gunwale of a canoe, splitting it. G
INDIAN to whom it belonged demanded paymentHr
it, and took a shovel out eff the white's canoe, a$-
ing more desirable than the money. Thereupo&e
was struck with a paddle He returned the tw
with the shovel across the face of tie39en who stck
him, who instantly shot him through the body. las
soon as he fell, the whites pushed off The Indus
fired into them and shot a man, as I have @ve
stated-but who vas not the one that had sfruc he
Indian or had anything TO do with it. The Indus
down the river, as soon as they received the nesS of
this affair, stopped all canoes from ascending a1Fe
Harrison river, but harmed none I went on uIto
Fort Yale in the morning, and found a great COD 10
ton. The Indians were coming down the rivX in
great numbers; but through Mr. ATlard-the Id
sons Bay Company's agent at Fort Yale-theyer Pre-
pacifed partly, and when l came down the menere
again at work on the bars.
DISCOVERY OF Day DIGGINGs.-From Mr.. Thebre
Bond, who has lately arrived from Fort Hoptwe
learn that rich diggings haze been found abou& We
miles below Fort Yale, &1nnmbers of minerskho
had been prevented . e water from wofng
on the bars for some = 81, were hocking the
place.
Mr.. Bond and party were the first to discoveries
and when he left. the fners were aveding
from an ounce to twenty-fye dollars n day. He b1 light
down some $50 in dust, someof which we HAYDEN.
1t is quite coarse, several of the pieces weighit as
much as Sc.
These are the only dry diggings that have yeteen
below Fort Yale, all the mining hierto
having been confined to the river bars.
Ar. Bonds party were working on Hunter Bar,
IS at the mouth Of a small stream, on the yher
portions of which are the newly found digginJ
SEATTLE-Gold has been discovered near thiIace,
on Puget Sound. We have not yet got the pticu-
of the discovery, but are assured on reliat au-
thority that it has been made--Gasettc.
FINE GoLD.-Thew writer's from Frazier Rived says
the Sacramento Union, all declare gold foundh the
bars to be very fine, and difficult to save. There
gold only is found, it is rarely that Extraordinary
big strikes are made The ground is generalltound
about an equal richness, and the proceeds Of days
work depends very much upon the quantity If dirt
Extraordinary strikes or very largeEturns
for a days work are rarely met where only ff gold
is deposited This known general rule Neighrather
heavily against the statements made by som{of the
enthusiastic writers on the Frazier bars, of Se and
hundred dollars a day having been madg nth a
rocker. If the gold is fine, we doubt whether uch a
could be taken out III one day, unlef a half
dozen men were at work with it. 1t takes r3re than
one man to work a rocker to advanta &c. Ind it is
probable that a number of men work at lie same
rocker, and the days work of the rocker isg wen in
stead of the wages per man. This would Ave large
for the rocker, while the men make jnly ordi-
larry wages.
Tin p SIDE OF THE SToRy.-Weiv i've below,
II Herald OF June 8, the follNing letter
'eceived by o gentleman in this city. lie writer is
merchant, and a shrewd business man. We giveit
Without commep* Our duty to the Pu4ic requires
hat both sides ofthe question should be eesenied in
mr. columns. The letter is as follows
yIcroRIA, june o, 1853.
DEIR FRIEND IL arrived here safely list Friday, /
er steamer Panama. Had a most unpleasant trip,
8 yon may imagine, when you think of ne number (
{ passengers crowded together on a mall boat.
town is rather a pretty place of ahous loo houses
nd some 1000 Inhabitants The countr about here
very beautiful, filed with farms, and agreatabun-
ance of stock of all kinds. Eggs. but.r, ETC., are
bout the same price as with you Theonly thing
Tanted is Il house. We all sleep in tents n the open
ir. As regards gold mines, that is al a \ unoug.
-ou can get Indians to work for fifty ents per day,
nd plenty of white men for fifteen dolias per month.
GU may thank your stars that you dill net come to
MS country. I shall return by the iext steamer.
on may expect to see me in about IN days If
ny of your friend think of coming ,ere, tell them
ley had better stay where they are. Employment of
ny kind is not to be had mere. and IL s all nonsense
think of trading here, as the Hudson Bay Compa-
y claim the exclusive right to trade viii the miners,
nd have sufficient force to drive off ally American
,mpany that would try trading. / believe the gold
ines a grand humbug. I never was In y country
here money is so scarce, and as regardss gold dust.
,at is all nonsense-you never see a pirficle.
Thank God, I have money enough trgct back.
Yours, etc, W.
Atlantic Stafes.
Up to June 5, thirty vessels had ben fred into or
arched.
AMERICAN NAVAL FoIcEs IN THE GULF OF Mexico.
In view OF the fact that a collision between the
ritish and American forces IN me Gulf Of Mexico is
possible event. it is important TO know what is the