, 1866-03-24

or,be sierra Nevada. which there are toned
f1nIn .rnewhat from the high altitude they
hoast IN moro Northern latitudes, hss Oweps
Lake. ve1itable Dead Sea, In whose Wate2a
sports no living thing. u this lovely saees
Of water wc1LEno"n e*A'ofmaa writes ~
acwsn Lake, 10 strongly hnpresnaeod With bossx,
sluu,. xlAa1t. oil end uthef b9ostxnees, Al last
gon: 10 .dd hins .. II aG ro.an on, on IL
gr1va Of many Indians That rua from bullets tsy
"a tutm ifS Waiess. re: tl6 Eere niil tAke 4 pa
ept for tanning By It's waters; he finds 1t viii
make good lfa1her IN ten da5s. without msnuai
laoor. .He vii sts!t export tAda rom ben. bot
Ing eheep, clcaning hoss snd making high fore
HEAVY RoBHERI.
The. .hsh!on ofrobbIng Government officials
the East. The latest case In point Is that Of
Mr.:Adams, Collector Of the District of O1e-
go1, who took passage at Astoria On the
steamshIp Oregon for San Francisco, Last
week, bringing on board with him we'll
corded trunk containing s47 500 in gold coin,
and, as he thinks, IRON 81, 600 to 1900, OF
possibly $4,000 IN legal tender notes. He
OF legal tenders, and there might hare been q
Thousand or two more or less. This money
belonged to the United States Government,
and be was bringing It here to deposit With
the Sub Treasurer, Ia accordance with instruc-
tions from the Treasury Department. On 60
ing on board the steamer, instead Of deposit
Ing the money With the Puraer, aud sceiag
any man Of ordinary prudence and business
sagacity would have doue, be took the trunk
directly to his stateroonl, and kept it there
during The entire trip. He says that he never
lost sight Of the trunk while the Walters we're
cleaning the room, and at all other times kept
the staleroon key in his pocket On Friday
evening he wished to write q letter to his witc,
and going to the Purscr got sheet of paper,
and sitting down by the aze wrote It there.
On the arrival of the steamer at the wharf
in San francisco, on Saturday morning, he
took his trunk directly to the Russ House,
and there opened 1t in his room, and for the
first time discovered that there had been a
vas bags, two Of which-oue containing SE2,-
500 aud the other s, ,000-were missing. The
legal tenders were all scattered over the bot
tom Of the trunk, hut he la un1ble to say
whether any Of them are missing, for the raa-
Fon Inat, 'as we have stated, be bad no memo
randum ofthe amount. As soon Us be discoT-
package without counting them, and put
them In hts outer coat pocket, where
they would be perfectly safe, for the
reason that no jayhawker, with q partf-
Gle Of common sense, would ever think
"a AHuluS bucu prize IN aucl q plAce, aud
went directly to the Police Office. The de-
tective force were set to work at once. but rs
the passengers had already landed and dis
persed through the city, the chances Of detect
Ing the robber or robbers, were not at all to
be compared to that Of *' finding needle in
lay-now y Mr. Adams repaired to the wharf
with tho detectives, aud passed some hours
among the 1oungers IN that vicinity, without
finding the thief or having the package Of
greenbscks in his coat pocket stolen; He
says that he did not deposit the money In the
safe from IN apprehension that the political
antecedents Of somebody connected With the
steamer were such as to make him an object
Of suspicion, he. thinks the money was sto-
leu when be was writing the letter, nnd also
that ho adams is the most carcless man In
existence about money matters
MONTANA.
Just now the merchants Of San Francisco
are awakening to the Importance Of the trade
present and prospective, Of Montana, and an
active effort will be made to control It. The
preference seems to be given to tho Colorado
river route, By which freight can be landed
With steamers within 400 miles OF Salt Lake,
and presume most Of the goods shipped
from here this season will 60 this way. Chi
cago has trade enough already, and should
be glad to see San Francisco laT over her in
Montana, If that country IS what 1t Is being
represented here, which I doubt,