New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-03-30
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS.
From Our Own Correspondent

U6lUCrE6 mas teSu hiuCc 1ofo' S"N11J5 ANH'N@'y
gives us two or three weeks Of pleasant weather
any in the year; but this season 1t has been rapirg
almost without cessation in the valleys add the
coat AMI showing in the mountains The rain 10 this
city during the month has amounted to 81 inches aud
the snow in the northern part of TIE State and high
up on the Sierra Nevada is said to be deeper than
ever known before. The higher mining towns IN
Nevada and Sierra Counties from OOD TO tOOC feet
above the OCEAN level covered with snow from Fix
10 fifteen feet. 10 Laporte, tunnels through the emo"
are made the Streets in other places houses
have been broken down by the weight OF the snow. ]
wrote To you few days since, by the Overland Mall,
that Mr.. Eberhardt had been killed by snow ava
lsnehe the eide of the DOWnievie Bette IN Sierra
County. His body has not been found, though sixty
men were al time engaged in searching Tor hun.
The search has now been abandoned. The aVdsnche
100 feet deep and 800 feet wide and cid down the
mountain side a distance Of two miles.
IIsnse MortensOD, a native of Bonne, BornhOlm,
Denmark ESQ it is written, aged % year was killed
by snow.slide, Poormsn's Creek Sierra County,
On the 9Th ut.
During the last three or four days have had
warm sunny weather, and it is feared that tue sud
den melting Of the great masses OF snow on tne
mountains will cause foot in the SACRAMENTO ana
Eea Joaquin valleye The Sacramento people have
been discussing the policy Of repairing the leYee
which encircles the town. bat they viii probsby not
do ybiI until the danger mas come aud gone. 10
was supposed that the numerous bitches aud reser-
Sors, dveTtpg the mountain streams ifom their nat
Usl channels would have made food impossible,
bat THE calculation did not anticipate ouch mass Of
snow coyers the Sierra.
The country papers all agree that there is a good
prospect fer large yield OF gold and gram during tie
coming Spring and Summer.
A Committee Of the Senate has reported that the
State and County Treasures have lost about g. OOUOD
since July, 1853, by the inefficient manner in whica
the poll tax and foreign miners tax have been cob
iected. The Committee say that at the lowest esti
mate there are 40 900 foreign mners IN the State sod
at &l4 each, they should pay $l6O000 per month for
mining licenses and after deiucting al, expenses tOr
collecting keeping, transporting, paying over, &c,
The net receipts of the State and County Treasures
from this source alone should hare been g. l75 l0l be-
tween the LIST of July 1853 and the 3ls of December
1853; whereas the actual net receipts were only
$l,f5,659, showing lOss OF S1,699,lE on that item
alone II is supposed that there are 600 men sub
iect 70 the 50 annual poll ia the State and 5j
O30 should have been paid as net revenue into the
Stss and County Treasures from that source during
the last five calendar years, but only $6U $50 were
paid, showing loss on tnat item OF S9JU,OUo. The
Committee cay, with gee: Never did Government
possess more fruitful and less burdensOme source
Of revenue than California possesses IN the foreign
" miners tax
The COMMITTEES are in error here; many despotic
Governments have despoled the helpless, and made
more out OF them and with fewer scruplCs of con-
science, than felt by the legislators OF California
when they give sanction every year TO the law
requiring Cinnamon to pay gas apiece every year for
the privilege Of earning their bread b. mining in
free country.
The bin to divide the State into Congressons Dis
ticts has been defeated because the Administration
majority in the Legislature afraid the Northern
District might send ant.Lecompton man TO
Congress-
series of resolutions has been offered in the A.
semby to call Convention If delegates from Cali
fornis, Oregon, Washington, Carson Valley and Arr
zons to promote the interest and insure the security
Of the people of the coast and especially 10 consider
the refusal of Congress to take efficient measures
for the construction of rail say from the Atlantic
ESTATES to the Pacific The author of these Tesou
lions has not declared what he means by them, but f
he proposes any separation, either seriously or as
empty threat be will receive little support IN the
Legislature
The Sas Francisco DAILY Times made its appear
ance on the 2sth nlt., a Republican organ, VITA
Charles A. Wsshbun as senior editor, Frank Sous
as associate editor, and VIM Y. Wells as local report
or. 1 mention their names because they are we'll
known persons. The first, have heretofore sisted,
IN brother Of the Congressional Washburns; the
second has held number Of public positions and IS
one of the authors of the Annals of San Francisco
and Wells though mere itemizer, wrote the latest
book of Travels in Honduras, published by the Hsr-
pers and frat gave 70 Walker the idea of Nicaragua
and made srrSpg for him 10 20 there honor
ably, as he might have done. The TINES is good
paper and il is supposed to be permanent so Repub
hcans having bound themselves 70 cortTibue one
dollar a week each 10 its support. This, with the
receipts from its subscriptions and advertisements
and the ability of It's editorial department should
success for il. II must be admitted however
chat the people OF San Francisco, and aso Of Sacrs
rnento, are not fond Of supporting party pspersin
during the last four years, and none could msnSge
TO pay expenses without the assistance Of official
patronage. The papers which flourish are iDdepeDd
ent, usually hoste 20 the Democratic party ia the
local elt otons, but by means friendly TO Republic
ansin. The new Administration psper, Tie Standard
edited by Charles 7. Bolts, has appeared 81 Sscra.
mento. The Assembly has elected it's stenosraphic
reporter to the position Of ofc al reporter az sSsry
oi$9S week; and for his pay he does noihiug more
than every other reporter does without pay from toe
state. be writes ont one report, ami gives ii 20 his
psPer, which prints Ii. Another report, quite as full
and probsby as socurate, appears.
The new steamer Toucey (vulgarly called Tachy
by some Of the bsser sort launched At the NAre
lsland Navy Yard dHy before yesterday. She meas
40 tuns, and u 10 carry 32-ponnd pivot gun
and two l2-pound howitzers. Her frame is maie Of
laurel, white oak and evergreen oak, OF California
and yellow hr from Puget Sound her plsnking decks
and beams Of yellow FIR. The official statement says
falsely that Give oak and "yelOs pine occupy
gwen by ignorant persons 10 the evergreen oak and
the yellow FIR. 1t Is said that the Tonoey has cost
So W. and viii he sent 10 the Chinese seas.
The majority for Dapcombe. nttLecOmpton can.
dicate Tor the Assembly In SscrS nentO IL; but
the Assembly has again declared him disqualified 10
take his seat.
During February 39,72S ounce. of gold. worth
$751; 500 were deposited in the Mint and 5000 0C0 IN
double eagles and 600 10 half dollars were coined
Coinage in the Miut has been suspended for ten dsys
from The "a inst that settlement can bemade in the
Consse Department the occasion of the exit Of Mr.
Ecifeldt FROM and the entrance Of Biz. Sloeoub upon
the Office ofChief Conner.
The Mint officials here fare very indignant at the
House of Represent for cusg down the sppro.
pra,on for the Mint from $3.50 600 10 SO OOO 20 pay
SJss expenses u the institution, aud tEey suPPoss