Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1858-06-19
Galifornia Melps,
ARRIVAL OF THE STAR OF THE
WEST
LATER FROM CALIFORNIA.

The U. S. mail steamship Star Of the
West, "A. e. Gray, Esq, commander, from
Aspnwall, arrived at New York on Satur.
day.
(From the Alta California Of May l2th)
The Frazer river emigration continues.
The steamer Commodore Capt. Staples,
sailed on the llth of May, with 500 passen.
gers, making in oil ,625 who have left .his
State for the North.
There is every assurance Of one Of the
greatest grain crops this year ever yet bar
vested in California.
Mr.. B. L. Doyle has shown Us fine spec.
linen of coarse placer gold taken from new
field at the Picache, As miles southeast OF
the Pimo Villages. He also informs US that
at the Canada d'Oro, eight miles from Tue
son, old coyote diggings have been recently
explored more than $50 feet into the noun.
tain side, and more than As cents to the pan
OF dirt was obtained, but that the miners
were compelled to desst from the great
number Of rattlesnakes with which the holes
we're filled. Gold fields have also been dis
covered so miles east Of Tucson.
Governor Wainwright is putting up smelt.
ing furnaces near San Javer, and reports
good prospects.
There was quite an excitement in town on
arrival from the Gndsden Purchase, of six
| eight-mule teams loaded with silver ore from
the Heintzleman mine. This is the first
! cargo. They have out at the mine some 70
tons, averaging $1,000 per ION, and about
10 tons, worth from three to four thousand
dollars per ton, is now lying at Fort Yuma
! waiting shipment.
OREGON.
Nha I,l 4 L. n
menced to murder, rob and plunder the in
habitants. 1t is said that two men, who were
on the way to the mines, had been murdered
by Kamiakin's band of Indians. Col Step.
toe, at the latest dates We have from Walia
Wala, was on the point of starting with a
detachment of United States troops in pur.
suit Of the murderers.
NEW CALEDONIA.
The steamer Panama, Capt. Dali, arrived
from Puget Sound, at o'clock, Monday
afternoon.
From an extra from the Puget Sound
Herald Office, of May llth, we have the fol-
! lowing news:
BY the arrival at this place, this morning
Of the steamer Sea Bird, Capt. Connor, from
Bellingham Bay we have later and very i'm.
portant intelligence from the Thompson's
and Frazer's river gold mines, which will be
found in detail below. A miner, at or near
the fork Of Thompson's river, writes to O
friend at Seattle that he is making $35 0
day. We learn from Samuel McCaw, ESQ
who camo passenger in the Sea Bird, and
who recently left Fort Yale, that miners il
that locality are making from So to SIG pei
day each. Some 30 or more are at work Q
few miles above Fort Yale. Mr.. McCaH
ascended the river some twenty miles above
Fort Yale, and assures US that the diggings
are rich along the whole of that distance
the mines yielding an average Of not less thar
$l2 per day each man. The gold is found OF
and within six inches of the surface. Mr.
McCaw brings fifty ounces of the gold will
| him, the largest pieces OF which are worth s;
or S4. He received this in trade with thu
Indians. The Indians are friendly, and vii
continue SO as long as they remain unmo
Tested. The Hudson Bay Co.'s officials ar,
said to be very accommodating, and furnisl
every facility to miners to reach their desti
nations, with view to promoting immigra
tion. The water in Frazer's river has rsel
upwards of twenty feet within the past fort
night, and at last accounts was steadily rising
at the rate of two feet per day. The new
town of "Schome" had been laid out, and lot
were taken up quite rapidly by business mel
from various parts of the Sound. Schome il
about one mile south Of Whatcom.