The Placer herald., 1860-04-21
Items from Washoe.

The letters and dispatches lately received
bv residents of Nevada, from their friends
and partners in Washoe, are curiosity. A
dispatch dated last Monday morning, says
"Can YOU loan 81 900 for three months at
ten per cent, per month, on good security"
The gentleman to whom it was directed
has the money, and does not doubt that the
security is good, but cannot think of loaning
it at such low rate of interest.
Another dispatch of the same date, direct
ed to partner here, says:
"Just sold fifty feet for $4,000; send me
by Express $3.50"
The partner, instead of sending the money
by Express, has concluded to take it over
himself, and at the anne time look after his
interest in the $4,000.
A letter, dated some weeks ago, written
by former resident of Nevada, to partner
who furnished him an outfit last lall say:
81 have been offered 5000 foot for half
of our claims, but wouldn't sell for any
price. They are rising in value every day.
Capitalists are beginning to arrive from San
Francisco, and there is any quantity of mon
ey here to buy diggngs, but coin is scarce.
Board is 500 week, and poor at
that. I've been boarding on tick for the
last month Il II When YOU come over,
bring little more coin than you want for
| your own use."
From another part of the letter we infer
red that notes, with a mortgage on the
claims for security, was what the writer
called "money"
Another esteemed citizen of Nevada, and
subscriber to the Democrat, left for Wa
shoe about two months ago having previ
Gus ly made arrangements with a couple Of
moneyed men, to "draw" on :hem in case
he 's,ruck any thing good" They, having
every confidence in his Judgment agreed to
honor his drafts for an unlimited amount.
After being there few weeks, he negotiated
for an interest in claim located near the
big end of the Horn, and "drawed' for the
money to make the first payment. BY this
| time, however, Washoe stock had begun to
decline, and his bankers, for some unac-
countahle reason had never been able to hear
| from him, although we learn on good au-
thority, that he has written at least dozen
times tor money. The last we heard of our
subscriber,h ,he was just crawling out of the
other end of tne Horn, having succeeded on
bis way through in securing an imperfect ii,
tie to one foot of ground in the Golden Cur
ry claims.
THE CosT-The ST. Joseph (Mo) Gazette
Of Feb. Sd SAYS the managers of the principal
telegraph lines, in connection with the Pony
Express, have agreed on the following prices
for private dispatches to and from California:
For ten words from any Atlantic city, or
any other telegraph station, or vice versa,
two dollars and forty five cents; for similar
number of words from the first station on
the California telegraph line to any part of
California, and pice persa, two dollars; while
the charge for expressing the message, with
out regard to length, will be 50 As each,
making the sum total from any station in
the Atlantic States to any station in Cali
fornia Sc 90 for ten words. The charge for
each additional word above that number will
be twenty cents for the entire distance.
The understanding is that the telegraph
companies will refund the entire tolls to par
ties forwarding any message which fails to
reach California, or Vice verSa, in advance of
any other route, and that they will return to
the lender any moneys paid for dispatches
filed in season to overtake the express at st.
Joseph which through any reason may fail
to reach that place before the departure of
the express
ANOTHER STATE PR1soN REvoLT.-On
Sunday afternoon, says the San Francisco
Telegram, band of prisoners, who were on
their way from the Prison to San Rafael, dis
tant some four miles, in charge of guard,
while passing through narrow gorge on
the road, turned on the guards and beat one