Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1849-12-05 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

CALIFORNIA. P ROSPERITY AT THE " DIGGINGS."—The strainer " Empire City" arrived at New York from Chagres, just as the last advices left. She brought nearly a million of gold dust, and a large number of passengers. It is now a "fixed fact" (says the New York correspondent of the Dilly News) that there is to be a crowd of travellers constantly on the way going to and coming from California. The numbers even now exceed those transported by the packets between New York and Liverpool, and the amount of merchandise and gold is even giqater. This may seem like exagceration, but really it is the truth. Already there are 100,000 petpie in C-lifornia ; before the next six months are pssed there will be 100,000 more. It appears by advices from San Francisco to the Ist of October, that the gold, so far from being exhausted, is only beginning to be discovered. Trinity river is thelatest point of attraction. Gold has been found so abundantly that there is quite a rush there from the old placers Feather river has been almost abandoned in consequence. The labour of Indians at a comparatively cheap rate is the only inducement for the miners to continue at the latter locality. The mountainous country, washed by the Juba river, continues very attractive. No less than .5,000 people are there constantly employed. An ounce a day is the:usual average of each man's work, under the disadvant tges of extreme heat and high water. At the middle fork the miners were doing well. A party of four melt obtained 0,000 dols. in eight days. At Dry Creek the miners were still more successful. Six persons belonging to a Dr. Boynton's company gained in eight days, 8,000 dol., and the hard workers gathered several ounces daily. The tributary streams of the San Joaquim are ascertained to be extremely rich. A lump of gold was found Imbedded in rock in the diggings of Callaverus, weighing nearly 30 lbs. A person writes in reference to this, "I ant prepared to believe anything I hear about the gold in California." These stateinents could be multiplied to a degree that would be tiresome. Within three utiles of the place where the first discovery of gold was made, and where it was swpposed it was no longer to be found, a deposit of the precious metal has been detected equal in licitness to anything in California. It was my fortune to he present at the receipt and delivery of about 84,000 (Wars in gold recei, ed by the steamer. The parcels varied in sums from 7,000 dollars to 50 dollars, and many were addressed to females. They were packed up in small boxes, leather purses, and coarse brown paper. It was a curious sight. They are sums remitted by husbands, brothers, sons, the proceeds of various mercantile adventures, or the gatherings of the ii rd-wot king children of necessity. Tne mind could not hut be struck by this strange innovation upon American hosiness. Within a year a new world has been opened to American enterprise, a metal with which we are not very familiar has become extremely common, and almost every person you meet has received some of it front an absent and adventurous blend, and carries it about his person. One thing is very curious. The Chinese are already quite an fait of Cal.fernia wants. Houses ate sent from Canton in considerable numbers, grotesque enough, and as crooked in their tinthers as the most unsightly and ill-grown tre 's ca I make them ; and yet they sell readily at 1,500 dols. each. A friend of mine, who almost built a shop for himself, and that at an expense of 3,000 dols., writes me that he sold it for 9,000 dais. it) cash. To sum up, it is enough to say that the population of California is rapi Ily increasing, the amount of gold to be taken from the rivers and rocks is incalculable, and the commerce connected with the country must become Immense.  A horrible crime has be:11 committed in Paris, in the department of the Loiret. The Sieur X—, medical doctor, aged 06, possessed a fortune of 100,000 francs. He married lately a third wife, aged 21, to whom, by the context of marriage, he gave all lie possessed. A few days ago he was found hung about 400 yards front his dwelling. The police being suspicious. arrested the wife and a young soldier, whose mistress she was said to be. It appears that M. X-- was strangled and then bung. A murder has been discovered in the Tintilleries, at Boulogne. A woman, about 4.0 years old, has had her throat cut by some person or persons unknown. Several suspicious individuals have been arrested.