New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-03-24
Later from California.
ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMSHIP QUAKER CITY.

Later from California. @
ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMSHIP QUAKER CITY.
The steamship Quaker City, from Minatitlin 10th
nst arrived yesterday afternoon, bringing the mails
and passengers Of the 9Th inst from San Francisco.
The steamship Sonora left San Francisco on the
9TH nst with 400 passengers and 81 500 900 in trea
sure The steamship Orizaba, of the opposition line.
left on the same day with 700 passengers, taking
them through to New York for $50 in the steerape.
paying $25 for each passenger across the Isthus of
Panama, and thus proving the strength of the oppo.
sition on the other side.
SHIPPING NEws-In port, British brig Wild Wave,
(before reported schooner snlk) Smith, master, up.
loading assorted cargo for the Louisiana Tehuantepec
Company, and to sail in ballast for New Orleans.
Sailed March 9th, French brig Independent, with
mahogany for Falmouth, for orders. March 18th.
Sandman brig Espero with mahogany, for Liverpool
March 18th, British brig Philip Dean, Earl master.
mahogany for New Orleans !; schooner T. Raymond,
Latham, master, with mahogany, for Boston, March
l4th, three masted schooner Cornne, for Campeachy
no ballast.
The following is the list of passfagers brought BY
the Quaker City:
j. g. %asaorb T. T T. snT. ese Francis
k snH sn i sl:I ellison s.psen
SON. sD Bianab enp " V" A More R. Pasr-
/ E MsIns oes " Jhg Ma9sS
j. sharp. V. H. Patterson. -
Our files of California papers contain nothing of
great Importance from either San Francisco or the
interior of the State.
man named Albanus Blman was recently muir.
dered in most horrible manner in San Francisco on
the night Of the 10th ut in his own house by hay.
ing his brains beaten out with club. The story at
first was that two or three men knocked at the door
and when he opened it struck him down and killed
him by repeated blows, but suspicion afterwards fell
upon his wife, two men named Kelly, partner of
deceased, named Magnus, and negro man. Mrs. B.
was woman of very bad character. The negro
made sort of confession, duplicating the Kellys,
and the parties named were all arrested.
young man who had just arrived in San Fran
cisco, from Boston, was found dead in one of the
public baths and it was supposed he had taken fit
and drowned in the tub. He arrived in the ship
Yisurgs, and it was supposed, from ticket in his
possession, that his name was S. H. RUSSELL
A number of miners, in different parts OF the
State, had lost their lives by the caying in of their
claims, in consequence of the extremely heavy rains
The miners of Shasta county had resolved to expel
the Chinese from their mining districts, and had
adopted memorial to that effect. The Shasta Cou-
rer says
We have heard from about half dozen of the min.
ing localities of the county, and so far about 500
miners have signed the memorial adopted by the
Miners Convention. The prospects are that when
the lists are all brought in they will embrace thou
sand or twelve hundred Names What becomes of
the declaration that very small minority of the
miners of the county favor the action OF the Miners
County Convention? The entire vote of the county
last year was but ,45S votes.
The Columbia News has the following:
No ;pFor l,,C vi n n.
miner on Gold Hill, while sitting on pile of rocks
talking to him, tCo P.) complaining OF his hard for
tune, and throwing rocks from the pile on which he
was sitting into reservoir that was near, from mere
wantonness, not having anything to do the Colonel
thought that piece of rock which the miner was
about to throw away looked as if it contained gold
and told the miner so, who only laughed at the idea
of rocks, which had probably been examined by
scores of men and thrown away useless containing
gold. The Colonel asked him to give him the rock
II he did not want it, but examining it more closely
the man found that it did really contain gold and
upon pounding it up he obtained $2O7 worth from it.
Such instances of good fortune are not uncommon
about Columbia. Only few months since man
found piece of quartz, under very similar circunl
stances, worth over IS 900.
The Sonora Democrat says:
The mill of Sousby & Street, running ten stamps.
and grinding probably fifty tuns of rock during last
week, yielded thirythree pounds and three quar- lar.
tiers OF gold. Such yields may be expected for some
time to come. Other mills in the mountains have
yielded largely, but we have not obtained the result
The San Francisco Bulletin publishes letter of
the Gath ult. from Los Angeles, from which we ex-
tract the following in regard to the Colorado gold
mines:
From reliable friend who is at work at the new
dggngs on the Colorado learn that there are eight
or ten claims there which are paying we'll NV in.
iornant, with two partners in days, took out
Sl15 75 He writes that the next week they expected
to do AS well, and that they would work out their
To nv Ia ~
in which they are at work are the best that have been
struck in that vicinity, they being more extensive
than those on the other side of the river. These
g D are gu this (%esp side of the Colorado.
There were something like 200 men at the new mines
but not more than so OF them were making anything
The balance were running around Men were Offering
to work for 81 90 per day. This looks as if gold were
not plenty there except in spots; and this is cha
racteristc Of all the mines that have been scoyersd
thus tar IN that locality They are " spotted or rich
only lnspots, and those soon worked out
From Frazer River.
Not much had been realized from mining since the
cold weather set in previous to which some Of the
lucky and industrious made very good wages A let.
ter OF the "a of February from Fort Yale says:
The weather continues cold, and the river has
great deal OF ice floating in it, though it is very light
ice. Some foot OF snow is on the ground and it nc
casonaly SHOWS. Still the temperature is not low
III lact Tor so far the winter here is not near as se
we're as one might imagine from certain letters writ
ten from TINS place and published in the San Fran
cisco papers.
Affairs are quiet here now. The force of sappers
and miners have gone below. A police force OF Is
men has been organized under Mr.. Charles Brew who
is now here. The gamblers, ETC., are gradually dis
appearing and going oil to the forks and interior, to
be in readiness for next years operations.
From the Sandwich Islands.
A letter of the 18th of February, from Honolulu,
to the Alta California, gives full account Of the
grand eruption of Mauua Loa, from which we ex.
tract the following interesting particulars
On Sunday, January 23d at O'Clock, P. NJ, with.
out any of the usual premonitoty phenomena of
earthquakes subtertanean sounds, or sutry weather
the lava burst out some three thousand feet from the
summit OF Mauna Loa. or ten thousand ieet above