The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-03-31
FROM THE PACIFIC COAST,
Blythe EMPIRE CITY.
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op will leave here about the 25th inst, on
his way to the Colorado river at the Mohave vii |
lagos On his arrival there, he will commence |
work on the wagon road from the Colorado, east, |
until he meets Lieutenant Beale's party.
Mr.. Bishops party will consist of thirty men,
He will take with him the camels, % in number,
now at his rancho, seven six-mule wagons and
| thirty five pack mules.
| Mr.. Craig, of the Overland Central Mail, who |
has been detained by the hostile attitude of the
! Mohave Indians, for some time between Fort TIE
jon and the Mohave river, will accompany Mr..
| Bishop with the mail. He has party of eight
men.
CHA GoLD-Mr. C. c. Ordeman called upon us
! yesterday and showed us some as handsome speci-
mems of coarse gold taken from the ella mines as
| we have ever seen from any locality. or SAM
pie OF about seven ounces the grains would average
nearly d OF. each. One piece weighed an ounce
and number more than haitian ounce. One speci-
men incorporated with quartz. While Mr..
Ordeman is of the opinion that the country in that
vicinity is rich in gold, he would not advise any
one to go there at this time. The summer season,
which is intolerable, and the want of water, are
THE TRADE WITH UTAH.-The trade from and
through Los Angeles to Utah, is rapidly on the
increase. Since the LIST of January there has left
this city about 60 wagons loaded with goods for that
market. The value of these goods is from 100000
to $4,000. The transportation of these goods
will employ not far from 100 six mule teams and
wagons.
REPoRrED CEssIoN OF THE FEEJEE ISLANDS TO
| December saws:
"We learn from reliable source that, on the 1lth
of September last, formal deed of cesson of the
Feejeean Archipelago to her Britannia Majesty
was executed by Thakombau, the Vunivalu of Bau,
claiming supremacy, by Tui-viti king of Feejee)
over the entire Archipelago, and its Inhabitants
| We understand that Mr.. Pritchard the British
Consul, arrived in Sydney, from Feejee, several
days since, by the John Wesley, and that although
the affair has been kept very quiet, he is about to
proceed to England with the instrument alluded to-
| n w dali Eanta lin
Sinclair, arrived at Feejee early in September to
demand payment of the fines imposed by Captain
Boutwell,, of the John Adams. Thakombau offered
apologies and explanations to the non-payment
of these fines, which deemed so far sufficient
that an extension of twelve months granted by
| Captain Sinclair, but with an intimation-couched
in the strongest terms-that if such fines amount
ing collectively to $4,000 dollars, (about f9, O00,)
were not paid at the end of twelve months, force
would be resorted to.
"Immediately after this, propositions, by Tha-
| kombau for a cession to the Queen of Great
Britain, made to her Majestys local represen-
tative, the Consul The deed of cession finally
cuted contains stipulations, we believe, to the fol-
| lowing effect:
| "First. That the American claims against Feeiee
shall be paid settled by her Britannia Majesty's
| Government.
"Second. That Thakombau shall be allowed
| las TUT With to retain his position chief
of the aboriginal tribes, but to govern under in
structions from the local representative Of her
Majesty.
'lnlrQ. mat IN consideration OF the f0rtV-hve
thousand dollars paid to satisfy American claims,
| two hundred thousand acres of land shall be made
| over to her Majestv's Government, such two hun
dred thousand acres of land to be selected by
| British appontee.
Fourth. That in addition to this grant of 200 900
| acres, there shall be grants OF such other lands as
may be needed for local governmental purposes;
such requirements to be agreed upon by Commits
| sion, to consist of two Feejeean Chiefs and two
! British gentlemen, presided over by the local rep
resentative of her Majesty, the latter official to act
as umpire in all the disputed questions.
The Sydney Herald, in another article says:
''Touching the cession of the Feejee Islands to
Great Britain, we have ascertained that Mr. Prit-
chard, the British Consul, arrived in Sydney sew
eral days since, by the John Wesley, and we be
lieve, although the whole affair has been kept very
quiet, that he is about to proceed to England with
the treaty. According to the terms agreed upon,
this cession, if accepted at all, must be accepted
before the 18th September next, as, unless the Amer
lean indemnity is paid by that time, it will, proba
bly,, be exacted by force from the native chieftain,
and the principal object of the latter will be de-
| feated.
Correspondence of the Alta California
| THE GOLD YIELD FRASER RlvER.- Victoria
oath February, 1S59.-The news from the mines is
of very encouraging character, and considering
| the very small number of miners at work, the
| turns must be regarded as large. As near as | can
ascertain, there are not any more than 800 miners
at work on the Fraser river, and many companies,
l am credibly informed are averaging $40 per day
per man. In the space of fortnight the yield was
upwards of 30 900 ounces, and the total shipments
to San Francisco by the steamers Pacific and
| Northerner was upwards of S50,0O0 of which S45,-
600 were shipped by Wells, Fargo Co. Present
accounts from the Upper Fraser country represent
that region as being highly auriferous, the gold
being of coarse quality. have doubt that
after large body of miners shall have congrega-
ted on the ground during the ensuing summer, the
! yield of gold will be something considerable.
| CAPITAL OF BRITISH CoLUMBIA.-Governor Doug
! las has issued proclamation in reference to the
colony of British Columbia, and declaring Queens
| uph tn he bn nrt of nnfry Vha faAv
tage of this site is its adoption a naval and mill
tary station. 1t is, believe, situated about 20
miles lower down the river than Fort Langley,
and, on the opposite side is well protected by ma
| ture, and has fine anchorage.
| Correspondence Of the Alta California;
FROM THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. Great Eruption of
the Volcano Mama Loa.-HoNoLULU, Feb. 12.-In
my last mentioned that thought of paying visit
| to the volcano at the Island of Hawaii, but | had
not the slightest idea that special display would
be got up in the meantime. Such however, has
o'clock, p. NJ, without any OF the usual Fremont
| tory phenomena of earthquakes; subterranean
sounds, sultry weather, the lava burst out some
three thousand feet from the summit of Mauna Loa
ten thousand feet above the level of the sea- and
such the rapidity of the flow, that before morn
ing spectators at Hilo, distance of sixty miles
from the eruption, were of opinion that the lava
had run a distance of twenty-five miles down the
mountain side.
| This eruption is declared by old residents to be
greater in volume, and more magnificent in ap-
pearance, than any previous one that can be re-
membered At Lahaina, distance of over one
hundred miles from the crater, on Saturday night,
| the 18th January, the volcano was distinctly vis-
BILE, illuminating third of the heavens like that
of an immense and neighboring confagrator; and
from elevated positions it is asserted that the shoots
of liquid fame could be seen at intervals as the
immense caudron 'boiled and bubbled." The sea
was lighted up with the reflection of the flame
everywhere within one hundred miles of the era
ter, and the coastng vessels enjoyed the advantage
without the presence of a full moon. Lots of dead
fish were observed floating about in the neigbbor-
hood of the Islands, both before and since the
commencement of the eruption and the inference
is, that they killed by submarine fires or heat
connected with the volcano. We of Honolulu, have
experienced a sensible change of climate, which is
also attributable to the eruption. BY last accounts
not far from one thousand square miles of the
face of the island of Hawaii must have been covered
by the burning lava, causing great rarefaction of
air all over that space.
The party who left here per Karomi, on the Sd in
slant, to visit the eruption returned the TENTH
| having been absent only seven DAYS, two of which
were passed in the neighborhood of the flow. They
describe the scene as nexpressiby grand. The erup
ton is on the west side of Mauna Loa new crater
estimated at five to eight hundred feet across hav-
| ing formed there, from which the liquid mass was
momentarily elected in immense jets of a thousand
to fifteen hundred feet high, and falling over the
sides, poured down towards the This it reached
on the 3lst ult, at place called Wainanalii, about
II miles to the westward of Kawahae, and 40 miles
from the crater. Here it destroyed native village,
and fine grove of cocoanut trees, running out into
the sea two miles and entirely filling the little har-
| Dor.
The inhabitants of the hamlet were reused from
| "the sumbers of midnight by the approach of the
liquid fire, and had hardly time to themselves
At this point the stream is only two hundred yards
in width, and by last accounts had cooled over on
| the surface so that walk it, at the
risk, however, of breaking through the thin crust
| into the still flowing stream beneath. Where the
fire meets water, very splendid sight presents it.
SELF old ocean kissing and spouting like huge sea
serpent and constantly sending up clouds of steam
and cascades of water. second stream has star
ted from the crater, and at last accounts was run
ming down parallel with the first flow.
The eruption of 1855, on the Ho side, ran con-
stanty for seven or eight months in succession, and
this may do the same. The glowing accounts given
by the excursionists who have returned, have excl
ted considerable fever, and on Monday two schoon-
ers sail for kailua, the best point from which to
visit the flow.
GUANo lsLANDs.-We learn that the Josephine
has been ordered on cruise of three four months
to search for new guano islands, and that Mr.. C.
and take passage in her for that object. There is
no doubt that there other islands valuable as
the above, but probably few will be found which a
ford even as good anchorage and facilities for land
| ing that
| From THE SOUTH SEA MIssIoN.-The missionary
| brig, the Morning Star, which most of your read
ers will no doubt remember, was built in Boston, in
1855, from ten cent contributions of Sunday School
scholars, and cost some thirteen thousand dollars
arrived here on the oath ult., from Micronesia,