Daily national Democrat., 1859-01-25
summary of Interior News.
SIERRA CoUNTY.-The Sierra Democrat hai
the following:

the following:
Ansd"c.-Deputy Sheriff Pierce brought to
town. on Wednesday, Cohn Mehan. who has
been in the Asylum at Stockton, and who
escaped on the strength of forged certifi-
cate Of discharge, lie was arrested this
time at Morrison.
Rosdlind, weak vessel, started with Hob.
sons saddle train for Camptonville She
rode slowly, and fell behind the balance of
the train, and finally fell behind her own
mule And, being unable to regain her scat,
she went on foot to Goodyear's. The train
had gone, and she fortified herself with
bottle OF brandy, and proceeded on foot for
Camptonville. Lost the trail and finally
stuck In snow bank, where she laid about
forty hours. Some men passing. found her
VEIL and traced her up from that, and re-
moved her to Goodyear's where she now
lies, in very bad state of repair, but with
a chance to recover
GB A fabulously rich deposit of gold has
been discovered in one of the tributaries of
Whisky Creek. Putnam and Christian are
the fortunate finders The region round
about having been mostly taken up previous
to this discovery, great amount of Jump
ing, quarrelling, and casing is now the order
of the day. Big lawsuits loom in the dis.
tance
1t is confidently believed by those who are
posted, that this will prove the richest gold
region in the State-and prospects seem to
justify the belief. Every tunnel that has vet
got through to travel, has yielded prospects
to warrant the outlay necessary to working
u large number of hands, fitting up, DC.
Nothing can be done till spring opens and
water comes. Then, this will be an excellent
place for men who want to work at 81 Der
day.
The annexed items are from the Sierra
Citizen:
Execution of Murray - Too day, Friday,
January 2lst, at twenty minutes before one
o'clock, Michael Murray suffered the penalty
of the law for having murdered Daniel
Sweeney.
The gallows was placed within high en-
closure, erected for the purpose, on the Court
House Square; and the condemned, escorted
by the National Guard, walked firmly to the
fatal spot. Al the gallows, he shook hands
with several of his friends, said few words
to the priest, and when the Rev. Father Del
ahunty had offered prayer, the instrument Of
death performed its work Under the super
vision Of the Sheriff, and Mr. Asher, who con.
structed the gallows and building, every ar
was perfect. But very few per-
sons assembled to await the event. The at.
tending Physicians, Drs. Bryant and Kibbe,
the body dead in thirteen minutes
after the execution, and the remains were
given to friends
Murray made no confession, but when it
was ascertained that a commutation of SEN
-ence could not be obtained, he requested to
have 1t said, by the press, that he committed
the murder while in the bewildering excite
ment of passion, aggravated by u wound in.
hicted by Sweeney, and that he absolved al
others of any connection with the crime and
was willing TO die.
Through this medium, the prisoner desired
to have extended an expression of his graft.
tude to Mr.. and Mrs. Clapp, of the jail resi-
dence, for their great kindness shown during
his imprisonment; also, his thanks to the
Sheriff, and those who humanely endeavored
TO procure a commutation of his sentence
Brandy CitH-While our community are
enough to promptly adopt every
new Improvement which may be introduced,
hey are also desrous to improve upon the
experiments Of others and though we can
not claim much in the way Of original inven-
lion, the way We work our diggings here
speaks well for the tact of our miners. Most
intend using from one hundred to
two hundred and fifty inches Of water, and
with this can wash more dirt with four men
than they do in some places with ten OF
twelve men and when say four men, |
mean two in the day and two at night, for
with most of us there is no intermission, run
ming day and night we make every hour
count, and in no mining place are there more
energy and perseverance exhibited Were
our companies all washing on the bed rock,
there would be rs much gold taken out here
as in any place in the county with the same
number Of miners; for, our diggings, the last
season, ranged from five hundred to one
thousand, and twelve hundred dollars per
week from the top dirt alone in fact some
Of the companies are within twenty feet of
the bed rock and wherever reached, it has
been found rich. h.
Rock Creek.-We must make good mention
of the industrious people at the Rock Greek
tunnels, which are situated four and half
miles from Downievi!le and on the City of
Six and Mt Vernon lead. There are two
companies, the Engine and Forest, each of
which is obtaining large remuneration. Last
week. the Forest Co. took out % ounces
the work of two men for not more than one
day. A piece weighed eight and quarter
ounces.
The Town Water Supply-We have ascer-
tained that the amount of water furnished,
through pipes from Langton's springs, to
about one half the residents Of Downieville,
is 10000 gallons for every q hours. In
L. 4 bar min
and the town water supply. already one of
great public convenience, will, if there should
arise sufficient liberality towards protection
of property, establish the means for extin
gushing fires. Water may be conveyed from
those springs to the upper parts of all the
buildings
SANTA CLARA CoUNrY-The San Jose Tri-
bune has the following:
Those VoLcanitos took n look, one
day this week, at the supposed volcanic ori
flee in the willows, in the rear of Prevost's
garden, which, together with the more noted
ones near Judge Cowles', created so much
discussion some weeks since We found it
still "open to inspection" hut quite cooled
down in its temper, there being no percepti
BILE difference in the warmth Of the air inside
and outside of the crevice. A wider, and
much longer one in the same vicinity (trace
able for seventy or eighty yards) Is in a like
luiescent state. No vaPor now issues from
either
Ftgetdtion - Notwithstanding that we
have had larger quantity of rain this sea
son than has fallen up to the same date in
any year since '53, the vegetation in the val.
ley, in consequence of the heavy frosts. is by
no means so far advanced as it should be.
We observed, the other day, in passing over
The road to San Francisco, via Mountain
View, etc, that the grass along the whole
route is scarcely any higher than it was
nnnth nrn Among the low hills tnwnrds