New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-07-21

confirming the .oalIee Van Ordnance legal and
r. the Of Srs s Of h sns s a '
posseors therein Described against sale City and State title
10 the lands In said Ordinance m. utioncd e..
hnh. That the City Of San Fran co is the owner Of the
municipal srds of the Pueblo not legally dpo.ed Of as IN
before explained, and that her title wholly unaffected ny
Shenf ssesnrder execution sgai her-so far " THESE
touch affect he aforesaid Pueblo lands holding .,cb
hands ss1r nv nos.ron NAV set up nysdy Of such
sales H. plaintiff title derived th-feH0h' oue p
The cp,ior il written by Baldwin. j., and con-
Cured IL by tisd, Z. d. 9 ooo -.
IT, lad in an. stion amounts to about bOOO acres,
not Of 1ge, of Lars in street and south of Mission
o. ekhat Is at cor sider l5le dlftau from the bas
insss ,art of city, but stil valuable worth Dot less
than 81 600 eco The decision VIII bave very
Der efcI effect upon San Francisco by settling titles
encouraei, improvements iDcr. asng the number OF
landowners and giving NEG confidence AS / Is the
ci is improving very rapidly. The people who were
going TO decay during that period would be astonished
to see present prosperity The streets are full OF
brick and lumber, and the hammer and uowel can
be- head on every SIDE.
road party WAS at Honey Lake, and II was probable
that be would have a fight with the Indians. Isaac
Roop. claiming to be Governor of Western Utah,
wrote a leitsr TO him, in which he says
Reliable testimony has reached that the hostile In
dian, under WnnenGcka tauid Lake in
days thsse settlements and that they in
STACKED they were seen 90 ear the hch
loaded Yen too much experience
IA 10 our beef cattle Provisional Governo
s interests a Re % 9 CITIZEN It Be and as an oe
Of General Government to aid us in estremtyn
Col Lander has written reply, in which be says:
II appears that the hostile Indians occupy commanding
n upon the line Of work and cannot be approached to
advantage by the usual route OF travel ny instr cton can
do not object connecting such humber of feel jus
deschbg from tn train with the force ra-ed by your
more expose the public property in my charge to the
chance destruction by turning this which is especially CIVIL
I ads mo Ing
with very light equipment and the drying OF rev hundred
pounds of beef for subsistence"
The talk about the failure of H. G.. BlaisdeI, of
whom wrote YOU in my last letter, has come 10 an
end and it is laid now that he will come out all right
but j. =. Raymond grain merchant, has failed certain
" for TIE amount Of about S3OU
The Morning Can attributes the failure of Brews-
ter 10 specuatiops in Washoe stocks, and SAYS:
The speculation in leads was wild beg ond precedent claims
The hope that they could worked IN the Spring Spring
and With the Indian hoste which pnt an end to practical
per 10 gave their find their paper approaching
maturity and earnings 70 meet -no not even prospect
pore entirely oil crisis There can be no doubt that
many business have put then foot In IT, Some must
20 by board hope that the panic vi only be confined
t. few Of the moe and bstanta Of the Washoe
.pecsto Those who have ventured fer beyond their depth
H. this unwise viii founder in Court"
Capt j Z. Stevens of Marysville sticks to his story
about the tree 500 feet high. He writes thus 70 The
MarzsrtHe Democrat;
OuT party Of thyve encamped a, the lower cad Of
what We termed the Little Canon in Western Utah about
which truly great curiosity and wonder Of the sufficient
{, the nsTedgty Of Ose DO passed through the Fs
former age seemed 70 us 70 be weldehned line Of drt
wood deposited the line high marx OF some ancient
yiyeT whose bed is now ridges but closer in
spection unanimously pronounced one tree as we
too well defined what when Standing an altitude
Of e66 feet 800 such steps Western frontier man takes
when stepping his distance to shoot at target or any man
would take in pacing of a turnp patch.
400 feet from roots the tee is divided into two
parts equal in and $50 feet rom the root
took of specimen from Of these forss having on its sur
now in the Office OF Dr. Thompson .tree be-
tween Third and Fourth From the curves Of the zines Of
taken from to 10 feet and this bear mind at els
OF SO feet from the root The tree and ooy h The Tree
but the night OF the cannot be far at fault in saying
measured when standing, some 700 or 800 feet In hight
The San Mqteo Gazette of the ODD inst reports that
calf born on the 10th day of May, 1859 gave birth,
on the 18th u TO live and perfect calf of orcioary
size. Beth doing well now as could be expect
ed Befers frequently become mothers and cows here
before they two years Of age but this San Mateo
case beets ANYTHING on record in California.
In the New. Almaden some interesting testimony
has been taken lately. A letter written on the Atm
May 1876, by Thomas o. Larkin, United States Con-
sul al Monterey, and addressed u James Buchanan,
then Secretary of State, vas produced. The winter
6evotes ts letter TO the mineral resources OF California
then known, and says:
Ninety mites y seal south of San Diego there are some
eH1f9s to R oSn 9e onae. Ra
mi s at San Pablo the Bay of San Francisco there are
t AZ np os SsS OF mines 50 to 80 miles north Of
rev there ssd be several silver mines there are several
one pitch 10 Cover the Of their make floor Of
It, by mi1i earth win It AT these places fo9ie ~ &
horses horned cattle are lost there lew miles
north Of Barbara. the for several miles upon
cooed By the pitch oSzis s from the d banks ls;
the mission Of Santa Clara there are mountains with VEN. Of
quicksilver ere discovered by Don Andres Csero hehico
IN 1916 which the undersigned has twice produce twenty per
cent pure quicksilver by simply putting the pounded tIL
old gun barrel one end psc. IN the hIe tne o'ntI
becomes condemned the metal then strained through A
handkerchief The red ore pIodlees aI oeteI nah t 10,
There appears end to the production Of the metal II pm these
mountafns Working Of quicksilver Is but now commenced
under great Disadvantage from not having any tue @
generally used IN extracting that metal Near the o. 90
rome about 20 miles from the entrance ofhe Bay OF san faa
gayh and 10 be equal to the others Near the same
tow there sulphur mines the piece the underslea mas
h possession perfectly pure without Iock ., a ' 30
led mines; some Indian. have brought bianie.
OF lead to the mission Of san Jnan I r,1
Ricbsrcsop one side OF the entrance the Bay Of San Fran
there . lead mIs tns hoo; Ie Of eobe ons.
hich when taken by nail knife n the lead entirely
terey there mine Of silver and lead winch mas been taken
cut but separated there Is sst slate 81 the pest q1any
the Sacramento hver There is said to be black ead IN me
country fen sDco near San Pedro BY washing me
5 IN nlate any obtain from 81 to IS day OF
sod briDg 81 10 Boston the gold has been gam
for though but few have the ttience 70
look for souteas end OF isnd OF CatA There
i ,vrr nine from hich silver has been extracted There
no doubt but that old silver quicksilver copper lead sulphur
and coa mines be found all California and IT'S equally
doubtful neither their present owne they viii ever pc
rok.d TT Indians always sale there mines IN the
p bui would not their location, snd the Cslifornian
die net choose to looE Tor them
Ills now certain that Shiel Dem. has majority In
Oregon over Logan tkep.) for Congress. The follow
ING table contains the official majOrities this year from
AT the counties save Waseo, and the total vote lat
year: ,,,n ,S1o