New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-20

A diagram of tbs original CouDiock silver mine 70
carson Vslsy has been broughtto San Frsncfco. IL
shows the lead to be two and half miles long run-
Ming 10, ID snd south all OF which is claimed by shirty
companies who digging shafts or tunnels In twen,
ty-our places into hs bills where the lead supposed
10 pass Afew months will suffice to establish the ex-
tent Of tits Iine which as Jet ia oniy proved % Dc
rich 10 ore section, although evidences OF silver nave
been fourd through the distance claimed. Hundreds
of other claims fer miles around in the same region
have been taken up, and are being opened by tunnels
aud shafts but months must elspse before anything
positive IS to their richness can be enown.
LATER-By telegraph 20 Fresno Guy.
SAS FRAscIsco. Feb. 2S-5 p. ID.
Arrived, stree yesterdays mail departed, chips Jean
Bsptiste, Bordeaux Europa, New-fork; Dark o.
Jean, Bordeaux.
All the busnees doing is Of speculative character
TIE country demand is uracoOuntaby backward aud
the regular trade have not the means If they have the
desire, of entering the market. Unless the country
trade shall revive soon a reaction will probably ensue
Money is getting more stringent Tor speculative wants.
Candles very dull At l9o.
Professionalism clear Pork in barrels sells at s2l
in half DO gil %; Mess Pork in barrels SIS Bacon
good fair &c.. auction sales Of $50 barrels Amos Bill
ipgs Hams at he. Lard quiet, bed in trss hands Tor
higher rates. Butter heavy and dropping. via the
Isthmus, SOC. Cheese, lJG l6c. Sugar, 300 barrels
Baltimore crushed by the st. Brigham, l3c.; % bar
rels Nev-YoIk, l3!c., all on speculation NewOrieans
firm at l2c.
A large number of prominent citizens Of San Fran
cisco departed yesterday for the Washoe silver mines
Three huI bred iron TASKS were sent from San Fran
ofco to Napa to-day, where h ia stated there is more
than CROUCH quicksilver TO l them already procured
from the new nnes.
Tire bill for the protection of California. bound emf
grants from bogus ticket sv ndling In NewYork, by
appointing agent to resoe there permanently, has
yasse d the Assembly.
Teleg1apbic dispatches from the south part of Ore
goD dated TIE 26th, represent intense excitement
existing in the vicinity of Jacksonville, account of
rich quartz discoveries. One company had taken out
ore hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars in gold;
eight hundred pounds Of rock yielded sixty dollars of
gold.
The steamer Columbia arrived from the southern
Iofts of Oregon to-day, bringing news of horrible
massacre Of Indians at several villages around Hum
boldt Bay by party Of 40 white men. On Sunday
morning st daylight on the 26h at Indian Island OPP
polite the town of Eureka and distant therefrom but
few hundred yards, than 40 Iodans were killed,
tbree-fourths Of whom were women and children. On
the beach at the south entrance of Humboldt Bay 40
or 30 massacred, that comprising every hu-
man being with red skin at that village. 10 was
reported and believed at Eureka that Simultaneous
attack was made the came morning upon the Indian
villages on Eel River. From wha, was known, not
lees than 200 Iodianf-msn, women, and children
were killed that morning. These deeds
peTpetrated by the farmers aud graZieTs of Eel
River County, who have suffered from Indian
depredations during the past year. They claim tina.
the peaceful Indians around Humboldt Bay have
furnished aid and ammunition to the hostile Indians in
the mountains and hence war of determination has
commenced.