New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-07-20

| ments. The Chief of Police Immediately chart
| cred the schooner "Naiad,f and dispatched ten
officers with Instructions to bring up the refractory
parties, who are charged with resisting the service
| of legal process. The ''Naiada sailed for the
scene of difficulty at 4 O'Clock Sunday morning,
and had not returned last night at II clock.
/ dispatch from San Andreas Calveras county,
says:
Constable Deming made discovery of moulds,
metals and unfinished coin, on the 10th of june
while executing search. warrant for stolen goods
in cabin the old brick.yard, hall mile
| from this place. Under-S!lerifts Thorn and pou-
glass succeeded in arresting nine of the parties
/ concerned The counterfeits are eagles, half
1 eagles, quartereagles, half-dollars and quarters
The dies of the quarters and quarter-eagles only
were found, and also quantity of tin, acids etc.
| almost a whole laboratory. Thorn had been
! aware of the proceedings of the gang for some
| time, and only waiting for further develop
ments to make descent on the whole gang. MI
4 are known. 1t is regretted that the exposition
was made so soon, as there are others residing in
| different portions Of the county, who might also
/ have been arrested. Their names Thomas
Giants, S. f. Tilton, u j. Holiness Thos. Stewart,
| l.. Wendell. j. Smallwood, and three others. One
| of them wishes to turn States evidence. Thorn
| has gone to arrest others,
/ young man from Red Bluff, named Calvin N.
Bright, recently died from chewing poisonous
root on 9th June. A correspondent Of the Red
Bluff Beacon, writing from Monoville on 3lst May,
says:
Bright left Monove in company with two other
men, on prospecting expedition When about
twenty-five miles from here, they commenced pros
peeting in what's called Bloody Canon, and Bright
| found root which he supposed to be calamus. He
chewed some of it, and gave some of it to one of
/ his partners, who likewise chewed it; and they
| were both taken sick Immediately. The third man
saved the life of one by giving him grease, but
| Bright was SO far gone that it did him no good,
4 and he only lived about three hours. He was
/ buried as decently as the circumstances would
j admit of, in Bloody Canon, close to the Marip0sa
/ trail.
| Some doubts having been expressed as to the
truth of the discovery said to have been recently
made, in the Black Rock region, of a petriied
tree of some Seue or eight hundred feet long, J.
E. Stevens the captain Of the late silver prospect
ing expedition in that region, and who fathered the
wonderful story, writes to the Marysve Democrat
| on the subject. He says:
| Our party, of thirty-iiye men, encaniped at the
| lower end of what we termed the Little Canon,
/ about three miles from which found this ia
nous petritaction, and which is truly great Curl
| osty aud wonder of the age sufficient to arouse
| the incredibly of those who passed through the
| High Rock Canon in is49." At short distance
| from this monster of former age, it seemed to
us to be wel-detned line of drift wood deposited
along the line of high water mark of some ancient
river whose bed is now an elevated mountain
ridge; but on closer inspection, We unanimously
pronounced it one tree, as we found it distinctly
its too well defined forks to what was, when stand
ing, an altitude of B66 feet 222 such steps
western frontier man takes when stepping off his
distance to shoot at target, Or any man would
take in pacing off a turnp patch.
At about 400 feet from the roots the tree is di-
vided into two parts forks, about equal in size,
and ut $40 feet from the root took off specimen
from of these forks having on its surface at the
time the outer and inner bark of the tree, and
which specimen is now in the Office of Dir. Thomp-
son, on D street, between Third and Fourth.
From the of the lines of growth, we estima
ted the diameter of the branch from which it was
taken to be from eight to twelve feet, and this,
bear in mind, at a distance OF $40 feet from the
root Of the tree, and only half of the tree at that
This estimate may be too high or too low, but in
the hight of the tree cannot be far at fault in
saying that it measured when standing some 700
800 feet in hight.
| Capt. Stevens adds that j. B. Dorr, lumber deal
er, Capt. Mckenzie, formerly of the steamer Peta-
luna, and several other gentlemen of undoubted
integrity, who reside at San Francisco, will not
only confirm the truth of the existence Of the pet
| rified tree, but show specimens thereof.
/ FROM THE NORTHERN CoAsr.-The steamer Col
umba, says the San Francisco Bulletin of the 2sth,
arrived here last evening from the northern coast
bringing papers from Crescent City and Humboldt
4 Bay to the Goth June.
TIE Copper Mtfaes-The Crescent City Herald
continues its notices of the copper mines in its
neghborhood but gives nothing particularly new
or important about them. Reports are stated to
/ be g favorable.H
Population Of Crescent City, The same jonr.
nal says:
/ From W. A. Hamilton, who has completed the
| census of Crescent City, we have the following
statistics Number of resident inhabitants, 533; IS
of whom are Chinese. Number OF houses, lI6 I; II
| of which are nnoccupied. 1t must be remembered
that the transient population of our city bears o
| large proportion to that resident.
/ The Wetc Mines III Klanloth.-The Northern Cali
| fornian (Humboidt Bay) Of Goth june says that
the latest news from the new mines of klamath
county confirms the reports recently published
from that quarter. The quartz lode discovered by
Charles Nash & Co. was known to be rich, and it
was believed to be extensive. Several companies
| had been formed and some Of them were making
/ preparations for the erection of mills.
| Fight loiM the Iadtdns.-A party of five white
| men made an attack on an Indian rancheria, a
short distance above Big Bend on Mad river, on
| the I'd June. Ten bucks were killed, and the men
pushing close quarters the Indians placed the
] squAws in front as a breastwofk when two of the
squaws were killed. These Indians have been
hostile to the whites since the first settlement of
the country, having destroyed large amounts of
property belonging the Settlers and killed white
men whenever an opportunity has presented for
/ them TO do so without placing themselves in dan.
ger. Northern Californian.
/ Crops IN Humboldt Lountg.--0ne month ago
the crops in this part of the State gave promise of
| large yields. The same may now be said of oats.
may, peas pDlhlOeS lElt Dut the farmers
1 thar the prospects for a good wheat crop are not
so good as they had hoped, for The indications nix
weeks since were favorable for an extra yield j;
still they think the crop will be fair one. The
I probable cause assigned for the change apparent
in the wheat is pretty generally, late raias and
| cold weather. We believe the reason to be that
the land needs a change Of crop. Wheat, year
after ear, upon the same land, will wear ont the
/ soil however excellent There must be change
the land requires rest lib G3th June.)
a Big Lt1np.-A writer in the Columbia Courier
says lump of gold weighing 96I pounds, avordu-
I p0is, was found by woman named Smith. of
French Raviue Sierra county, in October, l85i
and sold TO Albums x Go. fur St0.50B.
Old Fashioned . Weeds..-We saw tile other
day at few points in Napa Valley, three different
plants which We had never before noticed in Cali
fornia, viz !: the mayweed, the Mullein, and the
Canada Thistle. The latter is d @eiikaow pest at
the East. and might be prevented from spreading
in this State by destroying the plants wherever
found II not destroyed, will be certain to over
run the whole country in a few years.
tNapa Reporter.
go" Good Digestion watts ON Appetite, m d
REALTH good digestion lisa rarity This coul.
Try dyspepsia is among general if not
faal, consumption And yet every and
the land within reach swift remedy for
tins disease and all tho comrain that it engende
in hch Stomach Bes have failed eGre