April 15, 1853 (4 pages)

ne ee 5 ca eee ee i ; ' “ Jessness and unfairness of the Assembly . ¢M¢®, for miners to settle in some fayora. Se ee ee fee RONEN CT RRR ES ENR AI ase ET NT Little York Correspondence. Walloupa, Red Dog and Little York. a he Oh viTUR. Mr. Eprror:— You have frequently adverted to the prospect for mining in this region of the country, and experience is continually confirming the truth of your predictions, FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 15. Saw Francisco Ace voy.—We are? pleased to state that we have secured the services of . >, Fisner, as agent for the Nevada cog yan he Francisco, {He is authorized} From present indications this will be to receive advertisements and subscriptions . an extentive region for mining—and mifor this paper, and to receipt for al monies. pers who left here in the fall, many of All business that may be entrusted to him on . whom have been to the southern mines behalf of the Journa’, will receive immediate and other parts of the country, are reattention. Mr. Fisher is our only authorized 7 d fs foriadl agent in San Francisco. He may be found at turning _— Prepering . om rable the Merchants’ Exch1nge. homes with the intention of settling . permanently and bidmg their chances . Publication of Officia! Notices, hereabouts. The last instanco of excess've reck-. Whieh many learn from bitter experi~ that we have seen, was a bill passed on ble locality, and by so doing gain an the 7th, entitled “a bill to provide for . *¢quaintance and be able to improve adthe better publication of official and Je. vantages whieh by going from place to gal notices.” he first section of the place they could not have. bill providés for the publication in the. The mines of Little York, which have newspapers known as the Times and . been opened for a year or more, have, Transcrspt, San Joaquin Republican, and tyou are aware, proved much better than Democratic State Journal, of all adyer-. the most sanguine imagined; and altisements or notices relating to the esthough water has sold at the extrava~ tates of decenscd persons, fo fhe forma~\ gant price of one dollar and a half per tion, change and dtssolution of partnerinch, the miners have many of them reship, to assignments in bankruptcy, to. lized a reasonable amount of the prethe formation, change and dissolution of . cious metal to richly repay them for eee Valiey ‘Carréapetidenos. Grass Vauuey, Cat., April 18, 1853. Spring ishere. The earth is touched with life anew. Old winter is vanquished, and gone away to chant his melancholy dirge in other climes. ‘The morning of the new year is dawning upon us, and al! nature is awakening to its life-giving light. The humblest being of all animated creation has been called away from the co'd embraces of winter, . and made to rejoice with life in the genial air of Spring. She isscattering her fairest flowers among the quiet dales and mountain slopes ef the Sierras;and the . mancenita on a thousand hills have long . since felt her warm breath, and bloomed . and gladdened and ladened it with a} outiftee profusion of ecstatic odors. It is the part of wisdom, . The vain dogwood, hard by the margin and the conclusion ia clear that the of the snow-horn brook, will soon scent, the evening gale with its fragrance, the life-eurrents are coursing high on the! boughs of the oak, and its leaves are bursting from the incarcerations of their infant home to cateh the pure light of Heaven. Yesterday I stood on the top ofa proud hill. My vision to the snow-. blanched peaks of the Nevada moun. tnins was unbroken. Frem north to south, as far as the eye could reach, for hundreds of miles, they furnished a most . . magnificent border for the eas'ern hori-_ . tirely differens. Money is searce—the small pox will . Gotp Hitt Co.’s Works —We visited a become plenty, the doctors say, if the! shert time since the fine works of this com/the company has been running nearly two years, and during that time has been in licalthy eperation,’ the mill paying good diyidends, without fluctuation or intermission. The company have recently constructed from the mill to theif tunnel a railway about 1000 people don’t get vaccinated—and as for pany at Grass Valley. The quartz mill of . thieves, they are numerous enough to behoeve the public look-out. Several horses have beon stolen lately, and a highly illustrated thief, in broad daylight, took a Colt’s revolver from the ta~ ble of Dr. Cleveland. Yours, as ever, Grass Vatiey, April 12, 1853. A. A. Sargent, Esq: My Dear Sir—What shall the citizens of Nevada county do about the Plank Road? It is evident to me if not te mo:t other men, that woe have been fooled by both Sacramento and Marysville, in regard to this enterprise ; Pikr. The tunnel is probably the best ever constructed in California. It is now 425 teet in length, 5 ft. 4 in. in height in the clear, and 4 ft. 6 in. wide solidly framed up with sawed and on the sides with 2 in. plank, depth of the tunnel from the apex of the hill whole has been 9 game of “bluff” playis 111 ft. ed off upon each other. We never had confidence that Sacramento had the y j : : ability te experd money for a road—and PY dirt paying from $6 to $30 per ton. The noone who has visited that city any . success of this mill is proof that systematic her credit for hardly being able to pay . to pay; and the mill is one of the facts that her inevitable municipal expenses. . will be most influential in resterin i ; ; g public hi La Seuernriiie She, manies ber ait. . confidence in the business. zens in earnest, and that the promises! “Gentlemen of Grass Valley and Neva. in this State are those of Gen. Winchester at zon, and with the pure azure of the sk for a back-ground, they seemed ag a/ mittee, “Marysville has determined. that . . Jj . > a . . huge representation delineated on the Plank Road shall be built ie S€480M, . +116 firas time the steam was let on to the . outstretched Heavens, by the Supreme provided you give us any, the least, en. da,” eaid the highly respectable com. Grass Valley. A few days ago we attended the inauguration of the new works, when for Attificer of the World, to please and Couragement: nuT sik WILL BUILD IT engine of sixty horss power. Lverything ennoble the children of the Pacific. . ANY How.” worked admirably, and we were thoroughly feet in length, over which from the tunnel is . ;drawn by a horse the quartz for crushing. . timbers 6 in. square, and sheathed over-head . The The thickness of the lead is about . 2 ft., and pays from $10 to $40 per ton, the . time in the last three months would give . and persistent enterprise will cause quartz . Wincuester’s New Mrit.—The finest . made were to be honorably redeemed. . buildings and machinery applied to mining . joint stock companies or incorporations, and all advertiscments or notices in civil actions. The first section of the second article provides that all publications, advertisements or notices made or required on behalf of any corporate or county authorities or officers, or the officers of any city or county in this State, all notices of estrayed animals, and all such notices or advertisements as may be required in the course of any civil action or legal proceeding which now is or hereafter may be required by law, shall be published in tho following manner, or the same shall be of no legal effect! The bill then defines the different papors in which advertisements shall appear. It is impossible to characterize such a Dill as it deservos. We simply ask of what advantage is it to a citizen of San Diego, or Shasta, or Nevada, where they have papers of their own, circulating largely in their own vicinity, to advertise such_mattors in cither of the papors named? Would a merchant of Shasta or Nevada who wishes to bring his goods to the notice of his own section send'an advertisement to the State Journal ?— Still less would he to the other party pets named. Why, then, when he forms a co-partnership not bo allowed to advertise it where it will meot the eyes of bis customers? and when he dics, why not advertise his probate notice in the section where his debts wero contracted? The circulation of any and all these papers out of their respective cities is not a tythe of tho circulation of the local papers in their own neighborhood. The design may be to build up by irksome constraints on business, the circulation of these party sheets at the ex¢ of other journals, when their inworth is inadequate to the task— whole scheme is the emanation of paltry scheming unworthy of a delib‘erative body, and degrading to those who must be controled by it. Are not merchants and administrators able to select their own mediums for advertising tJ And what right has the Stato of California to compel Nevada county, if it wishes a bridge built, to advertise for proposals out of the county, and not in it? [The wholo matter carrics absurdity in the face of it, and resembles the freak of an eastern Pasha, rather than intelligent, representative legislation. It is not possible this bill can pass the Senate. Itis too bald, It is the most indefensible measure ever entertained even in the California Legislature, and even the Transcript, whilo eyeing wistfully the spoils, commends it with sham-~ ed face. ) RQ. We request attention to H. Davis's advertisement. He has recently made large improvements in his storo, and filled it with the best stock of goods ever in Nevada. bey Our San Francisco advertisements this week are well worth the attention of traders. They embrace every variety of goods, and furnish facilities not to be disregareed. Bea. We give much of our space today to our admirable correspondence.— The aiticle of J. W. on the plank road is the best we have seen on the subject, and we commend it to all interested.— He also gives some interesting facts in reference to quartz operations. ‘Pike’ is poetieal, racy and entertaining. We have rarely been able to present s0 fine a dish of intellectual entertainment so in our present_number. : wee. Miss Kate Hayes will sing at Grass Valley on Saturday evening, and in this place on Monday evening. > kG AORN TASHA NTT NN STP CET ERI RCRD eGR OS AI Se ce AR NT their enterprise and efforts. The Little York Ditch always affords an abundance of water for mining, and the price has lately been reduced to one dollar an inch, which -will encourage prospecting, se en . is 4 7 , isi 'G » bns' Grai ° and undoubtedly lead to the discovery . drew my vision for a while, and cast my . bad first been broken. But Marysville publisher. He had ready when we visited . Grows, bushels of Crain of new mines. Rep Doc.—The industrious mfmers of Red Dog opened a small portion of their ground last fall, but owing to the immenge amount of labor to cut away the rock, but few have begun to realize any thing from their claims. The claims of Perkins & Co. have proved quite rich, paying uniformly large wages, and often as high os $300 to $400 ao day to the hand. Watwoupa.--The young and thrifty town of Walloupn, is just beginning to attract public attention. During the winter Mr. Brown’s Company have been at work on Squirrel Hill, with but taree or four sluices, being supplied with wathr from their own private ditch; and it would do your very soul good to see them clean up at night. Perhaps no claims in this part of the country have proved more profitable than those on this hill. While gold is found with all the dirt, it is easily washod; and Squirrel Hill has the advantage of washing more dirt with better pay than any ground I know of, attended by the same expense in working. Cuatx Biurr.—The Chalk Bluff Water and Lumber Company have wisely adopted the just and liberal policy of Little York, in furnishing water at one dollar an inch, and from the late prospects by sinking shafts, and the amount obtained by washing on Corn Hill, they are beginning to attach great importance to their diggings about this place. The diggings here, too, promise to be extensive. No less than five different mines have been discovened in fair view of the village, within less than a half mile ofeach other. Indeed, every thing wears a new aspect here. The water is now in, and miners sro going to work in good earnest, opening their claims, with the encouragement of being well paid for their loss of time in waiting for water. Miner. Bay By the California papers just received, we observe that the name of “Jones” figures rather too conspicuously in the criminal records of the Golden State. Near Sacramento, one William K. Jones, was hunz under tho auspices of Judge Lynch, fer the murder, in a drunken frolic, of one McGaffin. At Nevada city,a man by the name of Jones ‘was sentenced to 18 months in the penitentiary, for involuntary man-slaughter in the murder of a Mexican woman. For reasons which may be appreciated by any parent who has had a son myswetdreg . absent or missing from the parental hearth-stone for near five years, wo would be obliged to any friend or cotemporary in California that will furnish the editor of this paper with the Christian name of the last named Jones —the one tried and convicted as aboye, at Nevada city, in Culifornia—by letter or otherwise. If the New York and California papers generally will publish the fact, or can obtain any information of Joun Jongs, now near 20 years old if alive, suddenly and mysteriously disappeared from the town of Hopewell, Ontario co, N. Y., on the 20th day of June, 1848, they would . confer a lasting favor upon his parents, . and particularly upon his father, pub~ lisher of the Wayne Co. Democrat, by . whom the fayor will be duly Sokal edged and reciprocated. . Wayne Co. Demoerat. . The Jones who received his trial in. this city last December, was not the’ one enquired for, being about thirty-five or forty years old. We can obtain no . information of “John Jones,” aged about 20, but will forward any this notice may produce. Ep. SE wea. The whigs were beaten at the municipal electien at Sacramento, Hardenburgh was elected mayor. And, as my eyes rested on a vast gorge Well, we elected to join with Marys-! convinced in viewing the capacities of the ia the mountains, I fancied the ele-. Ville, and in a few days, with the effort . machinery, the fine arrangement of the vari. ments in a wintry furor. The snow! confined to a comparatively few individ. .4, departments of crushing, sawing, &c., seemed fathomless, and I could hear the . uals, Nevada and Grass Valley subscrib. . . through the tempestuous air. I with-. have doubled this amount after ground ,¢™gincer as he formerly was as typo and . eyes abont me; the daisy strewed the ,®ppears to have exhausted herself by _his works the portion of the machinery al. earth; the air was warm and baliny, . the magnitude and earnestness of her . Jotted to sawing lumber, and intended to set . and I could almost hear the hum of the P’omtses, aad in performance has abso~ bee as he flies away to his nectar home. lutely done nothing. The project ofa Where is there a country that presents Plank Road sleeps in her keeping. The to the view of its people a picture more . opportunity te connect herself with the extended, diverse, beautiful and sub. populous towns of Nevada county, at a lime? It is no wonder that we become! time when she would have no opposition enamored of California, and that not-: io encounter from the rival city, seconded withstanding the attractions of our by the united exertions of our citizens, homes and the scenes of our childhood . is slipping by—and when. another seaand youth, we are unable to leave it,. son, Saeramento shall have reeuperated even with fortune in hands, and go back her exhausted resources, it will, with to them to spend the remainder of our Marysville, be Too Lars. She will it in immediate operation, thus providing a . sure and immediate resource for the compa. ny, While the heayier and delaying werk of . getting up and in operation the quarts erush. ing apparatus is in progress. The buildings . were erected by Mr.S. C. Richurdson, and . speak well for that gentleman’s workman. . ishipand energy. They are in every part substantial and well-constructed, and will . give good area and vent to the busy scenes they will cover. cold, shrill blast, as it whirled it away . ed bona side over $125,000, and would gipher ts p pial Arteialanbopescsigen aes! Grass Valley Correspondence. March 31, 1853. Mx Epitor :—We send you’a compilation from the State reports,—it is certainly very singular that Nevada county, shall be se behind hand. We should pay inthe State Treasury at least $30,000, that all i for non-collection ef the Ponies aia Poll Tax. We have the name of having vigilant collectors—no doubt as efficient as in . any other county. We believe the citizens ef this country have paid during the past 12 months at leasi . 40 to 50,000 of taxes—and nothing, but a strict investigation, showing te our satisfac. tion the contrary will change that belief, — . The Court of Sessions or individuals should look into the matter, We will cheerfully do what we can for oar own satisfaction. The facts are very easily got up, and we _ call for them. Ist. A full and complete list from the Country Treasurer of all taxes collected by him, (giving a list of the parfies who paid and their locality,) and all monies received by him from other collectors. 2d. Detailed copy from the census agent, of all tax-payers as taken byhim and the . place they live at. . 8d. From the Cemptrollers’ office the number of Foreign Licenses refused and the number of months issued for. The following curious statistics stand om record of this State. . Fromthe Census Report it appears that Nevada Coanty has ; A popniation of ee 21,865 Foreigners, (subject to tax) : 4,607 Herses, Mules and Oxen «4 9973 . Acres in cultivatien 5, : 1,687 . Grows, bushels of Grain 14,662 “ ie ** Potatoes 9,9500 Has capital invested in Mining Saw Mills, Merchandize and ‘own Property $5,086 661 Placer County has a population of 10,784 Foreigners, (subject to tax) ~ = 8553 orses, Mules and Oxen . 2,279 Acres in cultivation 679 14,936 ** Potatoes 650 Has capital invested in Mining, Saw Mijls, Merchandize and ‘own Preperty $81,787,867 The Comptrollers’ report up to 26th February last shows that Placer County (with loss than HALF our population and property) has paid into the State Treasury, $17,798,95 Nevada County enly paid in $83,405 ,98 Grass VALLE. Explosion of the Jenny Lind. Fifty-six persons killed and fatally scalded. We have in the Bay papers the awful intelligence of the explosion of the steamer days. We are getting, however, in eloser proximity to our native homes every have lost a trade, the profits of which to ‘herself each year, would greatly exceed . — Jenny Lind on the way from Alviso to San . a r % eee ’ . . Per Wells, Fargo § Co. . Francisco, She had on board 130 passenLOSS OF THE S. 8. LEWIS. day, and it is to be hoped that the pe~: the entire cost ofa Road. If noroad be ae n ‘ vel is not far in the future, when a built to Marysville fis year, there will . The Vanderbilt steamer 8. 8, Lewis, can visit the shades of the graceful elms. be but one built next year, and THaT . % most unseaworthy craft, went ashore . that shielded our plays from the noon-. WIL. BE To Sacramento. The reasons a few miles north of Bulinas Bar, en Saaes son wae return a to sap ci erat he x? pagent ai us. Utay, Ith inst. The passengers were . skies of California in the space of two u e pro. 0 0 8 j , Fi weeks. ' m . with some coins on navigable water, is all saved. Wo take the following from . The arrangement of our government! not abandoned. There are a few in the Alta : for a weekly mail to the Atlantic States this town, who will, if seconded by as; Tho Apes where the S. S. Lewis was is a highly gratifying event to the peo-, many at Nevada, forthwitk proceed to wrecked is about eight miles nerth of ple of this town, and it will certainly organize the “Nevada and Grass Valley . the wreck of the Tennessee, or eleven exercise a most happy and beneficial efPlank Road Company,” with a capital . iniles above “ihe Heads,” where a point fect on our whole country—socially and in fact, and in reserved right, sufficient makes out, and a dangerous reef prepolitically. ; to construct a Plank Road to that ety sentsan appalling line of breakers at We feel obliged to you here for the; which will give us the most ‘material high tide. The Lewis struck during a pertinent and just criticisms contained . aid.” Weare able to perform whatever dense fog, at dow water, upon some of ina back issue of your paper, on the. we stipulate to do, and rely upon it, Ne-, the rocks off this point of land. Had very reprohensiblo tardiness with which vada county will begin. ‘The gods she gone among them at high water, it the steamer mails are forwarded up here . help those who he'p themselves ;’ and . would have been impossible to have lan. from Sacramento City. They, or, some-. horest corporators have nothing to fear. ded her passengers with safety. She thing else, have had @ very proper effrom the “lion in the path” which has struck at about 5 o'clock A. M., and fect, for the mail by the Inst steamer, struck such terror to the men of the Capt. Sparrow is said to have expressed was forwarded with becoming industry . “ cities of tho plain "~-the individual li. his conviction that the tide had set him and promptness. With reference to no! ability clause of the California Constituupon Mile Reck, and acting on this, he places should premptness be consulted, . tion. Name three or five men of Nevaattempted to back her off. Searcely, more than our mining towns, from the . da, good and true, who will unite with . however, had her propellers made a dogreat inconvenience of attending the. 28 many of Grass Valley, and the first zen revolutions, when sho thumped st offices on the part of the miners, . blow will soon be heard. I hate tiese astern, and the fog partially lifting, eis to be hoped that the energy and fi-, folks who eternally ta/k and never act. Capt. S. was enabled to perceive the The world is full of them, and they are beach a cable's length ahead. He now the real “old fogys’—the dead weights reversed the engines, finding it impossi. upon the car of progress. ; ble to extricate the vessel from amon them for a strict and continued perfor. The present year will be one of good . the brenkers, and ran her for the tore . formance of duty. results to those interested in working She struek on a ledge of rocks and rollAn important decision by jury was!. gold mines zn place. Already the fogs! ed heavily from side to side, sustaining rendered in a magistrate’s eourt in this of prajudics, and the deeper darkness of . considerable injury from the first shock place last Saturday, Judge Fouse presiwillful ignorance, which have 80 long . of the rock and wave. ding. It seems that a party living beovershadowed the efforts cf the pioncers . The passengers were but little alarmlow here some six milea, had mortgaged ‘in Quartz Mining, begin to lift, letting . ed, after the excitement of putting the delity of our post masters below, will . never again give just room for censure on the part of those who havo claims on ' . gers. Tho explosion occurred by the bursting away of the hand-hole plate, and the exhaust pipe. The boiler was said to be good and the accident could not be anticipated — The details of this heart-rending calamity are distressing in the extreme, We copy from the Herald ;— The Jenny Lind was on her way from Alviso to this city with about 150 passengers She was passed at 12 o'clock precisely, off the Pulgas ranche, by the steamer Exprese going the other way. At ten minutes past twelve—the boat being then about four miles from the west shore of the Bay— a violent tremor was felt throughout;the boat, like the concussion produced by the tiring “ot acannon, and ina second after, a tremen dous report was heard, and thefwhole vessel was enveloped in a dense cloud of scalding steam. A plate on the after head of the boiler had been thrown out, and the steam and boiling water ‘gushed out with fearful vielence. The bulk-head separating th: boiler from the cabin, which was aft, was shivered into a thousand fragments by the force of the shock, and each fragment became a missile of death and destruction. The cabin was a closely confined room, about 15 by 20 feet, with small windows look Ing out upon a sort of jgangway that inter vened between it and the railings. It was just about dinner time—the table was spread and five minutes before, the ladies, children and gentlemen in charge of ladi 33, had been introduced into the cabin, so that they might not be incommoded by therush to dinner when the bell should ring, and ‘they werv about seating themselves at the table; some of the ladies were ‘already seated. Just ar. this moment the explosion took place—the dense volume of steam rushed into the cabin his ranch for the payment of a certain in here and there the pure warm rays of . sumof money. The creditor pushed the! glorious sunlight. Of my own part in. payment of the obligation, and tho de. the development of this, ere long to be fendent pleaded -the exemption act, . great interest of California, . cannot yet which provides $5000 to each head of aj properly speak; but others, co-operators family, and procured from the jurya ithe same field, deserve mention for verdict in his favor. The defendent has their long-abiding faith, and their earno wife, she being deceased, but hay two) nest efforts under many difficulties, to vessel ashore was over, and it was not boats were lowered. She was well provided with boats, and all the passengers and their baggage with some ship stores were landed without diffieulty. Tho last load left the ship about 10 i: M. Atahbout 12o'clock the female poruntil two hours after she struck that the . children in Missouri. ‘establish Quartz Mining upon a sure and . tion of the passengers were escorted to . Business is lively here on Sunday, and . profitable basis. Among these, most} Mr. Plumbe’s saw mills, about 4 miles the hotels and public places are throng. prominent are Wm. C. Crossett, Esq., . from the wreck, where they were comed with people; but in the week, still: . ©Conaway, Es1., Drs. Bacon, Delavan . fortably proyided with food and quarters . ness and quictude prevail, for the miand R. T. Huddart, to whom great praise . for the night. The men took up their ners are busy in the placers making an . is due forthe degree of perseverance and . lodgings on the beach, sheltered by a industrious and profitable use ofa plensuccess with which they have severally . cove near the wreck. tiful supply of water. Sunday is the pursued the business. As you area-. On her way to the scene of the disas-. great exchange day, and large amounts ware the Aqua Fria (English) Company . ter, the Active passed through a field of . of gold dust are bartered to the Express! have completed their negotiations for . ‘drift,’ Consisting of mattrasses, bench. offices of Adams and Wells, Fargo & Co, . the mill and property of tho Gold Hill . eg, spars and loose timber, which had . Mr. A. Delano is agent of the latter. [. Company, and 1 understand will this floated down from the wreck; and what. understand he has written a book on. season put *F. extensive buildings and was the surprise of all on board to find . California, whieh is now in press. A, machinery. To-day, I had the honor of that of the wreck itself, barely the hull business man, a close observer, with . @n interview with J. McDoveart, Esq.,/remained! The 8. 8. Lewis, in one . much travel through tho country, expe-. gent and superintendent of the West night, had completely gone to pieces! rienced, an extensive reader, somewhat . Mariposa Company, who has returned to At the pointon which she struck was to, of a philosopher, and, besides, a correct, Grass Valley after nearly a year's “pros. ho seen a fragment of her hull—the low. chaste and humorous writer, we bespeak . pecting” in other portions ef the State, . cr portion—and even this remoant was for his beok a highly popular and flit-)and has leased the mill of the Rocky being fast washed apart. Her timbers tering reception. We await its publi-. Bar Company, temporarily, for prelimi~ are strewn along the beach. A portion cation with interest and impatience. nary operations, Another English com. of her upper works had become disen. Last Friday the bank caved in on a. pany is expected to locate in this town, ‘gaged from the main wreck, and drifting 4, e man from the height of twenty foet, . arrangements for which are nea:ly con9 few hundred yards to the southward while drifting on Lola Montes Hill, and . summated. It will be seen, therefore, had sought an ny death among a more . covered him to the depth of two fect in that in Quartz Mining, and as combining formidable line of breakers. Only these the dirt, but, stramgo to say, did not seadvantages not found elsewhere in equal two vestiges of the steamer remain upriously hurt him! He wasrelieved ina degree, Grass Valloy maintains her wellon the rocks. few minates of his weighty responsibiliearned reputation, In regard to this So perished tho S. §. Lewis, and thus. ty, and is now quite well, save the temnd other topics, I prosose to address . has she sunk in the embrace of ocean in porary effeots of close packing. you from time to time, as leisure and . g single night. Looking upon her wreck Cats are on the increase, and rats, our your space will permit. {one would almost imagine it te be the supreme domestic pest, (I know nothing . Yours, truly, J.W. . romains of a vessel lost in the latter of the recreations of a vixen wife,) are . SARA ERIN . part of the last century. » . cal and instantly pervaded it. All who were in it were stricken down as if wilted by the heat. ‘They were scalded frightfally, externally, and all inhaled the fearful steam. Net one escaped ; they were all killed instantly.tor have . since died. Many of them had their clothes literally tern from them; the skin was entirely burnt off their faces and bodies. ‘The sight they presented was horrible beyond description; they were ive i scalded, but all were more or less mangled by the fragments of the boiler and bulk-head, and streams of blood flowed frem their mutilated bodies Some few of the gentlemen managed to grope their way out of the cabin crying iteously to those above to save thir wives and children. When some of the yassengers who were unhurt rushed below, the sight that presented itself staggered them, and some became faint.— They found the dead and the dying in a confused mass on the floor, covered with fragments of chairs, tables, furniture and timber, and horrible to relate they were writhing in scalding water, which lay six inches deep on rt aay oor little children were erying piteously fer their mothers, who could dg bat blindedicould not see. Mothers were shrieking with agony or calling on some one to save their children. ‘The pictare, even in recollec. tion, is heart-rending. Such was the scenes in the cabin. The volume of steam struck, as we have said,’against the bulkhead in the rear of the oiler—the greater portion burst through the cabin on its mission of death, whilst another portion recoiled and rushed forward killing Instantly one of the firemen, who was standing in front of the furnace doors, mortally scalding another who was on the forward deck, and kiling several passengers who were standing on the forward part of the lower déck. Those of the passengers who were standing on the forward part of the upper deck were neatly allsaved, A few only were scalded, and those not dangerously. Those on a most rapid numerical decline. . ; By! Rarrirs.—Charley Young presented to by, this 9 oe af rightly peony ' his friends and the public (which tneans the . tleliniot thé sallMcoieemsennton and will *4™° thing) a fine lot of valuable watches, not compare badly in importanee, with ‘jewelry, &c., in a raffle the last week. se Martin Van Buren’s project for’ the in. Was drawn on Saturday evening last, at Mrs. troduction of blood-hounds ints Florida . Frisbie’s saloon, to the full satisfaction of to belake the war-like Seminoles. Rats! ticket-holders. The highest prize was a tax our State thousands of dollars daily ; . enlondia eol tch, valued at $200. I object to it; we suffer sufficiently in eee wrod nore saa Nd ie this way by lovofoco administrations. — learn he designs to offer another at an carly The feline tribe, however, arc justly apday, and we doubt not with equal success, as preciated, anid the market is. firm, athe is so well known in this community that from eight to twenty doliars apicce, ace . his name is a sure guarantee against any cording to the kind. suspicion of unfairness or humbug : The steamers Goliah and the Active were busily eccupied during the whole morning yesterday in transporting passengers from the beach (at the mouth of Bolinas me) to their decks. The ladies were all recalled from the saw mill and safely, with the exception of a slight wetting, put on bvard the steamers. The U. 3. reyenuo cutter Frolie, Capt. Ottinger, was also actively engagod in service at the wreck during yesterday forenoon. We understand from her agents that ithe 8. 8. Lewis was insured for $150,000 in New York. about midship, right over the boiler, were entirely uninjured. But the most terrible destruction ef life was onthe after part of the upper deck, just over the cabin. Herea large number of passengers were congregated — After the steam had done its work of destruction in the cabin, it burst up the companion way and in an instant swept those in its path to the deck, like grain before the sickle. Not a man around stood; fifty lay prostrate, scalded, wounded, shricking ‘with agony or moaning in the last moments of life. It is impossible to state as yet, how many have been killed and scalded.’ It will not fall short of fifty. The Coroner is now engaged in holding inqnests on the bodies of the deceased,

ne ee 5 ca eee ee i ; ' “ Jessness and unfairness of the Assembly . ¢M¢®, for miners to settle in some fayora. Se ee ee fee RONEN CT RRR ES ENR AI ase ET NT Little York Correspondence. Walloupa, Red Dog and Little York. a he Oh viTUR. Mr. Eprror:— You have frequently adverted to the prospect for mining in this region of the country, and experience is continually confirming the truth of your predictions, FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 15. Saw Francisco Ace voy.—We are? pleased to state that we have secured the services of . >, Fisner, as agent for the Nevada cog yan he Francisco, {He is authorized} From present indications this will be to receive advertisements and subscriptions . an extentive region for mining—and mifor this paper, and to receipt for al monies. pers who left here in the fall, many of All business that may be entrusted to him on . whom have been to the southern mines behalf of the Journa’, will receive immediate and other parts of the country, are reattention. Mr. Fisher is our only authorized 7 d fs foriadl agent in San Francisco. He may be found at turning _— Prepering . om rable the Merchants’ Exch1nge. homes with the intention of settling . permanently and bidmg their chances . Publication of Officia! Notices, hereabouts. The last instanco of excess've reck-. Whieh many learn from bitter experi~ that we have seen, was a bill passed on ble locality, and by so doing gain an the 7th, entitled “a bill to provide for . *¢quaintance and be able to improve adthe better publication of official and Je. vantages whieh by going from place to gal notices.” he first section of the place they could not have. bill providés for the publication in the. The mines of Little York, which have newspapers known as the Times and . been opened for a year or more, have, Transcrspt, San Joaquin Republican, and tyou are aware, proved much better than Democratic State Journal, of all adyer-. the most sanguine imagined; and altisements or notices relating to the esthough water has sold at the extrava~ tates of decenscd persons, fo fhe forma~\ gant price of one dollar and a half per tion, change and dtssolution of partnerinch, the miners have many of them reship, to assignments in bankruptcy, to. lized a reasonable amount of the prethe formation, change and dissolution of . cious metal to richly repay them for eee Valiey ‘Carréapetidenos. Grass Vauuey, Cat., April 18, 1853. Spring ishere. The earth is touched with life anew. Old winter is vanquished, and gone away to chant his melancholy dirge in other climes. ‘The morning of the new year is dawning upon us, and al! nature is awakening to its life-giving light. The humblest being of all animated creation has been called away from the co'd embraces of winter, . and made to rejoice with life in the genial air of Spring. She isscattering her fairest flowers among the quiet dales and mountain slopes ef the Sierras;and the . mancenita on a thousand hills have long . since felt her warm breath, and bloomed . and gladdened and ladened it with a} outiftee profusion of ecstatic odors. It is the part of wisdom, . The vain dogwood, hard by the margin and the conclusion ia clear that the of the snow-horn brook, will soon scent, the evening gale with its fragrance, the life-eurrents are coursing high on the! boughs of the oak, and its leaves are bursting from the incarcerations of their infant home to cateh the pure light of Heaven. Yesterday I stood on the top ofa proud hill. My vision to the snow-. blanched peaks of the Nevada moun. tnins was unbroken. Frem north to south, as far as the eye could reach, for hundreds of miles, they furnished a most . . magnificent border for the eas'ern hori-_ . tirely differens. Money is searce—the small pox will . Gotp Hitt Co.’s Works —We visited a become plenty, the doctors say, if the! shert time since the fine works of this com/the company has been running nearly two years, and during that time has been in licalthy eperation,’ the mill paying good diyidends, without fluctuation or intermission. The company have recently constructed from the mill to theif tunnel a railway about 1000 people don’t get vaccinated—and as for pany at Grass Valley. The quartz mill of . thieves, they are numerous enough to behoeve the public look-out. Several horses have beon stolen lately, and a highly illustrated thief, in broad daylight, took a Colt’s revolver from the ta~ ble of Dr. Cleveland. Yours, as ever, Grass Vatiey, April 12, 1853. A. A. Sargent, Esq: My Dear Sir—What shall the citizens of Nevada county do about the Plank Road? It is evident to me if not te mo:t other men, that woe have been fooled by both Sacramento and Marysville, in regard to this enterprise ; Pikr. The tunnel is probably the best ever constructed in California. It is now 425 teet in length, 5 ft. 4 in. in height in the clear, and 4 ft. 6 in. wide solidly framed up with sawed and on the sides with 2 in. plank, depth of the tunnel from the apex of the hill whole has been 9 game of “bluff” playis 111 ft. ed off upon each other. We never had confidence that Sacramento had the y j : : ability te experd money for a road—and PY dirt paying from $6 to $30 per ton. The noone who has visited that city any . success of this mill is proof that systematic her credit for hardly being able to pay . to pay; and the mill is one of the facts that her inevitable municipal expenses. . will be most influential in resterin i ; ; g public hi La Seuernriiie She, manies ber ait. . confidence in the business. zens in earnest, and that the promises! “Gentlemen of Grass Valley and Neva. in this State are those of Gen. Winchester at zon, and with the pure azure of the sk for a back-ground, they seemed ag a/ mittee, “Marysville has determined. that . . Jj . > a . . huge representation delineated on the Plank Road shall be built ie S€480M, . +116 firas time the steam was let on to the . outstretched Heavens, by the Supreme provided you give us any, the least, en. da,” eaid the highly respectable com. Grass Valley. A few days ago we attended the inauguration of the new works, when for Attificer of the World, to please and Couragement: nuT sik WILL BUILD IT engine of sixty horss power. Lverything ennoble the children of the Pacific. . ANY How.” worked admirably, and we were thoroughly feet in length, over which from the tunnel is . ;drawn by a horse the quartz for crushing. . timbers 6 in. square, and sheathed over-head . The The thickness of the lead is about . 2 ft., and pays from $10 to $40 per ton, the . time in the last three months would give . and persistent enterprise will cause quartz . Wincuester’s New Mrit.—The finest . made were to be honorably redeemed. . buildings and machinery applied to mining . joint stock companies or incorporations, and all advertiscments or notices in civil actions. The first section of the second article provides that all publications, advertisements or notices made or required on behalf of any corporate or county authorities or officers, or the officers of any city or county in this State, all notices of estrayed animals, and all such notices or advertisements as may be required in the course of any civil action or legal proceeding which now is or hereafter may be required by law, shall be published in tho following manner, or the same shall be of no legal effect! The bill then defines the different papors in which advertisements shall appear. It is impossible to characterize such a Dill as it deservos. We simply ask of what advantage is it to a citizen of San Diego, or Shasta, or Nevada, where they have papers of their own, circulating largely in their own vicinity, to advertise such_mattors in cither of the papors named? Would a merchant of Shasta or Nevada who wishes to bring his goods to the notice of his own section send'an advertisement to the State Journal ?— Still less would he to the other party pets named. Why, then, when he forms a co-partnership not bo allowed to advertise it where it will meot the eyes of bis customers? and when he dics, why not advertise his probate notice in the section where his debts wero contracted? The circulation of any and all these papers out of their respective cities is not a tythe of tho circulation of the local papers in their own neighborhood. The design may be to build up by irksome constraints on business, the circulation of these party sheets at the ex¢ of other journals, when their inworth is inadequate to the task— whole scheme is the emanation of paltry scheming unworthy of a delib‘erative body, and degrading to those who must be controled by it.. Are not merchants and administrators able to select their own mediums for advertising tJ And what right has the Stato of California to compel Nevada county, if it wishes a bridge built, to advertise for proposals out of the county, and not in it? [The wholo matter carrics absurdity in the face of it, and resembles the freak of an eastern Pasha, rather than intelligent, representative legislation. It is not possible this bill can pass the Senate. Itis too bald, It is the most indefensible measure ever entertained even in the California Legislature, and even the Transcript, whilo eyeing wistfully the spoils, commends it with sham-~ ed face. ) RQ. We request attention to H. Davis's advertisement. He has recently made large improvements in his storo, and filled it with the best stock of goods ever in Nevada. bey Our San Francisco advertisements this week are well worth the attention of traders. They embrace every variety of goods, and furnish facilities not to be disregareed. Bea. We give much of our space today to our admirable correspondence.— The aiticle of J. W. on the plank road is the best we have seen on the subject, and we commend it to all interested.— He also gives some interesting facts in reference to quartz operations. ‘Pike’ is poetieal, racy and entertaining. We have rarely been able to present s0 fine a dish of intellectual entertainment so in our present_number. : wee. Miss Kate Hayes will sing at Grass Valley on Saturday evening, and in this place on Monday evening. > kG AORN TASHA NTT NN STP CET ERI RCRD eGR OS AI Se ce AR NT their enterprise and efforts. The Little York Ditch always affords an abundance of water for mining, and the price has lately been reduced to one dollar an inch, which -will encourage prospecting, se en . is 4 7 , isi 'G » bns' Grai ° and undoubtedly lead to the discovery . drew my vision for a while, and cast my . bad first been broken. But Marysville publisher. He had ready when we visited . Grows, bushels of Crain of new mines. Rep Doc.—The industrious mfmers of Red Dog opened a small portion of their ground last fall, but owing to the immenge amount of labor to cut away the rock, but few have begun to realize any thing from their claims. The claims of Perkins & Co. have proved quite rich, paying uniformly large wages, and often as high os $300 to $400 ao day to the hand. Watwoupa.--The young and thrifty town of Walloupn, is just beginning to attract public attention. During the winter Mr. Brown’s Company have been at work on Squirrel Hill, with but taree or four sluices, being supplied with wathr from their own private ditch; and it would do your very soul good to see them clean up at night. Perhaps no claims in this part of the country have proved more profitable than those on this hill. While gold is found with all the dirt, it is easily washod; and Squirrel Hill has the advantage of washing more dirt with better pay than any ground I know of, attended by the same expense in working. Cuatx Biurr.—The Chalk Bluff Water and Lumber Company have wisely adopted the just and liberal policy of Little York, in furnishing water at one dollar an inch, and from the late prospects by sinking shafts, and the amount obtained by washing on Corn Hill, they are beginning to attach great importance to their diggings about this place. The diggings here, too, promise to be extensive. No less than five different mines have been discovened in fair view of the village, within less than a half mile ofeach other. Indeed, every thing wears a new aspect here. The water is now in, and miners sro going to work in good earnest, opening their claims, with the encouragement of being well paid for their loss of time in waiting for water. Miner. Bay By the California papers just received, we observe that the name of “Jones” figures rather too conspicuously in the criminal records of the Golden State. Near Sacramento, one William K. Jones, was hunz under tho auspices of Judge Lynch, fer the murder, in a drunken frolic, of one McGaffin. At Nevada city,a man by the name of Jones ‘was sentenced to 18 months in the penitentiary, for involuntary man-slaughter in the murder of a Mexican woman. For reasons which may be appreciated by any parent who has had a son myswetdreg . absent or missing from the parental hearth-stone for near five years, wo would be obliged to any friend or cotemporary in California that will furnish the editor of this paper with the Christian name of the last named Jones —the one tried and convicted as aboye, at Nevada city, in Culifornia—by letter or otherwise. If the New York and California papers generally will publish the fact, or can obtain any information of Joun Jongs, now near 20 years old if alive, suddenly and mysteriously disappeared from the town of Hopewell, Ontario co, N. Y., on the 20th day of June, 1848, they would . confer a lasting favor upon his parents, . and particularly upon his father, pub~ lisher of the Wayne Co. Democrat, by . whom the fayor will be duly Sokal edged and reciprocated. . Wayne Co. Demoerat. . The Jones who received his trial in. this city last December, was not the’ one enquired for, being about thirty-five or forty years old. We can obtain no . information of “John Jones,” aged about 20, but will forward any this notice may produce. Ep. SE wea. The whigs were beaten at the municipal electien at Sacramento, Hardenburgh was elected mayor. And, as my eyes rested on a vast gorge Well, we elected to join with Marys-! convinced in viewing the capacities of the ia the mountains, I fancied the ele-. Ville, and in a few days, with the effort . machinery, the fine arrangement of the vari. ments in a wintry furor. The snow! confined to a comparatively few individ. .4, departments of crushing, sawing, &c., seemed fathomless, and I could hear the . uals, Nevada and Grass Valley subscrib. . . through the tempestuous air. I with-. have doubled this amount after ground ,¢™gincer as he formerly was as typo and . eyes abont me; the daisy strewed the ,®ppears to have exhausted herself by _his works the portion of the machinery al.

earth; the air was warm and baliny, . the magnitude and earnestness of her . Jotted to sawing lumber, and intended to set . and I could almost hear the hum of the P’omtses, aad in performance has abso~ bee as he flies away to his nectar home. lutely done nothing. The project ofa Where is there a country that presents Plank Road sleeps in her keeping. The to the view of its people a picture more . opportunity te connect herself with the extended, diverse, beautiful and sub. populous towns of Nevada county, at a lime? It is no wonder that we become! time when she would have no opposition enamored of California, and that not-: io encounter from the rival city, seconded withstanding the attractions of our by the united exertions of our citizens, homes and the scenes of our childhood . is slipping by—and when. another seaand youth, we are unable to leave it,. son, Saeramento shall have reeuperated even with fortune in hands, and go back her exhausted resources, it will, with to them to spend the remainder of our Marysville, be Too Lars. She will it in immediate operation, thus providing a . sure and immediate resource for the compa. ny, While the heayier and delaying werk of . getting up and in operation the quarts erush. ing apparatus is in progress. The buildings . were erected by Mr.S. C. Richurdson, and . speak well for that gentleman’s workman. . ishipand energy. They are in every part substantial and well-constructed, and will . give good area and vent to the busy scenes they will cover. cold, shrill blast, as it whirled it away . ed bona side over $125,000, and would gipher ts p pial Arteialanbopescsigen aes! Grass Valley Correspondence. March 31, 1853. Mx Epitor :—We send you’a compilation from the State reports,—it is certainly very singular that Nevada county, shall be se behind hand. We should pay inthe State Treasury at least $30,000, that all i for non-collection ef the Ponies aia Poll Tax. We have the name of having vigilant collectors—no doubt as efficient as in . any other county. We believe the citizens ef this country have paid during the past 12 months at leasi . 40 to 50,000 of taxes—and nothing, but a strict investigation, showing te our satisfac. tion the contrary will change that belief, — . The Court of Sessions or individuals should look into the matter, We will cheerfully do what we can for oar own satisfaction. The facts are very easily got up, and we _ call for them. Ist. A full and complete list from the Country Treasurer of all taxes collected by him, (giving a list of the parfies who paid and their locality,) and all monies received by him from other collectors. 2d. Detailed copy from the census agent, of all tax-payers as taken byhim and the . place they live at. . 8d. From the Cemptrollers’ office the number of Foreign Licenses refused and the number of months issued for. The following curious statistics stand om record of this State. . Fromthe Census Report it appears that Nevada Coanty has ; A popniation of ee 21,865 Foreigners, (subject to tax) : 4,607 Herses, Mules and Oxen «4 9973 . Acres in cultivatien 5, : 1,687 . Grows, bushels of Grain 14,662 “ ie ** Potatoes 9,9500 Has capital invested in Mining Saw Mills, Merchandize and ‘own Property $5,086 661 Placer County has a population of 10,784 Foreigners, (subject to tax) ~ = 8553 orses, Mules and Oxen . 2,279 Acres in cultivation 679 14,936 ** Potatoes 650 Has capital invested in Mining, Saw Mijls, Merchandize and ‘own Preperty $81,787,867 The Comptrollers’ report up to 26th February last shows that Placer County (with loss than HALF our population and property) has paid into the State Treasury, $17,798,95 Nevada County enly paid in $83,405 ,98 Grass VALLE. Explosion of the Jenny Lind. Fifty-six persons killed and fatally scalded. We have in the Bay papers the awful intelligence of the explosion of the steamer days. We are getting, however, in eloser proximity to our native homes every have lost a trade, the profits of which to ‘herself each year, would greatly exceed . — Jenny Lind on the way from Alviso to San . a r % eee ’ . . Per Wells, Fargo § Co. . Francisco, She had on board 130 passenLOSS OF THE S. 8. LEWIS. day, and it is to be hoped that the pe~: the entire cost ofa Road. If noroad be ae n ‘ vel is not far in the future, when a built to Marysville fis year, there will . The Vanderbilt steamer 8. 8, Lewis, can visit the shades of the graceful elms. be but one built next year, and THaT . % most unseaworthy craft, went ashore . that shielded our plays from the noon-. WIL. BE To Sacramento. The reasons a few miles north of Bulinas Bar, en Saaes son wae return a to sap ci erat he x? pagent ai us. Utay, Ith inst. The passengers were . skies of California in the space of two u e pro. 0 0 8 j , Fi weeks. ' m . with some coins on navigable water, is all saved. Wo take the following from . The arrangement of our government! not abandoned. There are a few in the Alta : for a weekly mail to the Atlantic States this town, who will, if seconded by as; Tho Apes where the S. S. Lewis was is a highly gratifying event to the peo-, many at Nevada, forthwitk proceed to wrecked is about eight miles nerth of ple of this town, and it will certainly organize the “Nevada and Grass Valley . the wreck of the Tennessee, or eleven exercise a most happy and beneficial efPlank Road Company,” with a capital . iniles above “ihe Heads,” where a point fect on our whole country—socially and in fact, and in reserved right, sufficient makes out, and a dangerous reef prepolitically. ; to construct a Plank Road to that ety sentsan appalling line of breakers at We feel obliged to you here for the; which will give us the most ‘material high tide. The Lewis struck during a pertinent and just criticisms contained . aid.” Weare able to perform whatever dense fog, at dow water, upon some of ina back issue of your paper, on the. we stipulate to do, and rely upon it, Ne-, the rocks off this point of land. Had very reprohensiblo tardiness with which vada county will begin. ‘The gods she gone among them at high water, it the steamer mails are forwarded up here . help those who he'p themselves ;’ and . would have been impossible to have lan. from Sacramento City. They, or, some-. horest corporators have nothing to fear. ded her passengers with safety. She thing else, have had @ very proper effrom the “lion in the path” which has struck at about 5 o'clock A. M., and fect, for the mail by the Inst steamer, struck such terror to the men of the Capt. Sparrow is said to have expressed was forwarded with becoming industry . “ cities of tho plain "~-the individual li. his conviction that the tide had set him and promptness. With reference to no! ability clause of the California Constituupon Mile Reck, and acting on this, he places should premptness be consulted, . tion. Name three or five men of Nevaattempted to back her off. Searcely, more than our mining towns, from the . da, good and true, who will unite with . however, had her propellers made a dogreat inconvenience of attending the. 28 many of Grass Valley, and the first zen revolutions, when sho thumped st offices on the part of the miners, . blow will soon be heard. I hate tiese astern, and the fog partially lifting, eis to be hoped that the energy and fi-, folks who eternally ta/k and never act. Capt. S. was enabled to perceive the The world is full of them, and they are beach a cable's length ahead. He now the real “old fogys’—the dead weights reversed the engines, finding it impossi. upon the car of progress. ; ble to extricate the vessel from amon them for a strict and continued perfor. The present year will be one of good . the brenkers, and ran her for the tore . formance of duty. results to those interested in working She struek on a ledge of rocks and rollAn important decision by jury was!. gold mines zn place. Already the fogs! ed heavily from side to side, sustaining rendered in a magistrate’s eourt in this of prajudics, and the deeper darkness of . considerable injury from the first shock place last Saturday, Judge Fouse presiwillful ignorance, which have 80 long . of the rock and wave. ding. It seems that a party living beovershadowed the efforts cf the pioncers . The passengers were but little alarmlow here some six milea, had mortgaged ‘in Quartz Mining, begin to lift, letting . ed, after the excitement of putting the delity of our post masters below, will . never again give just room for censure on the part of those who havo claims on ' . gers. Tho explosion occurred by the bursting away of the hand-hole plate, and the exhaust pipe. The boiler was said to be good and the accident could not be anticipated — The details of this heart-rending calamity are distressing in the extreme, We copy from the Herald ;— The Jenny Lind was on her way from Alviso to this city with about 150 passengers She was passed at 12 o'clock precisely, off the Pulgas ranche, by the steamer Exprese going the other way. At ten minutes past twelve—the boat being then about four miles from the west shore of the Bay— a violent tremor was felt throughout;the boat, like the concussion produced by the tiring “ot acannon, and ina second after, a tremen dous report was heard, and thefwhole vessel was enveloped in a dense cloud of scalding steam. A plate on the after head of the boiler had been thrown out, and the steam and boiling water ‘gushed out with fearful vielence. The bulk-head separating th: boiler from the cabin, which was aft, was shivered into a thousand fragments by the force of the shock, and each fragment became a missile of death and destruction. The cabin was a closely confined room, about 15 by 20 feet, with small windows look Ing out upon a sort of jgangway that inter vened between it and the railings. It was just about dinner time—the table was spread and five minutes before, the ladies, children and gentlemen in charge of ladi 33, had been introduced into the cabin, so that they might not be incommoded by therush to dinner when the bell should ring, and ‘they werv about seating themselves at the table; some of the ladies were ‘already seated. Just ar. this moment the explosion took place—the dense volume of steam rushed into the cabin his ranch for the payment of a certain in here and there the pure warm rays of . sumof money. The creditor pushed the! glorious sunlight. Of my own part in. payment of the obligation, and tho de. the development of this, ere long to be fendent pleaded -the exemption act, . great interest of California, . cannot yet which provides $5000 to each head of aj properly speak; but others, co-operators family, and procured from the jurya ithe same field, deserve mention for verdict in his favor. The defendent has their long-abiding faith, and their earno wife, she being deceased, but hay two) nest efforts under many difficulties, to vessel ashore was over, and it was not boats were lowered. She was well provided with boats, and all the passengers and their baggage with some ship stores were landed without diffieulty. Tho last load left the ship about 10 i: M. Atahbout 12o'clock the female poruntil two hours after she struck that the . children in Missouri. ‘establish Quartz Mining upon a sure and . tion of the passengers were escorted to . Business is lively here on Sunday, and . profitable basis. Among these, most} Mr. Plumbe’s saw mills, about 4 miles the hotels and public places are throng. prominent are Wm. C. Crossett, Esq., . from the wreck, where they were comed with people; but in the week, still: . ©Conaway, Es1., Drs. Bacon, Delavan . fortably proyided with food and quarters . ness and quictude prevail, for the miand R. T. Huddart, to whom great praise . for the night. The men took up their ners are busy in the placers making an . is due forthe degree of perseverance and . lodgings on the beach, sheltered by a industrious and profitable use ofa plensuccess with which they have severally . cove near the wreck. tiful supply of water. Sunday is the pursued the business. As you area-. On her way to the scene of the disas-. great exchange day, and large amounts ware the Aqua Fria (English) Company . ter, the Active passed through a field of . of gold dust are bartered to the Express! have completed their negotiations for . ‘drift,’ Consisting of mattrasses, bench. offices of Adams and Wells, Fargo & Co, . the mill and property of tho Gold Hill . eg, spars and loose timber, which had . Mr. A. Delano is agent of the latter. [. Company, and 1 understand will this floated down from the wreck; and what. understand he has written a book on. season put *F. extensive buildings and was the surprise of all on board to find . California, whieh is now in press. A, machinery. To-day, I had the honor of that of the wreck itself, barely the hull business man, a close observer, with . @n interview with J. McDoveart, Esq.,/remained! The 8. 8. Lewis, in one . much travel through tho country, expe-. gent and superintendent of the West night, had completely gone to pieces! rienced, an extensive reader, somewhat . Mariposa Company, who has returned to At the pointon which she struck was to, of a philosopher, and, besides, a correct, Grass Valley after nearly a year's “pros. ho seen a fragment of her hull—the low. chaste and humorous writer, we bespeak . pecting” in other portions ef the State, . cr portion—and even this remoant was for his beok a highly popular and flit-)and has leased the mill of the Rocky being fast washed apart. Her timbers tering reception. We await its publi-. Bar Company, temporarily, for prelimi~ are strewn along the beach. A portion cation with interest and impatience. nary operations, Another English com. of her upper works had become disen. Last Friday the bank caved in on a. pany is expected to locate in this town, ‘gaged from the main wreck, and drifting 4, e man from the height of twenty foet, . arrangements for which are nea:ly con9 few hundred yards to the southward while drifting on Lola Montes Hill, and . summated. It will be seen, therefore, had sought an ny death among a more . covered him to the depth of two fect in that in Quartz Mining, and as combining formidable line of breakers. Only these the dirt, but, stramgo to say, did not seadvantages not found elsewhere in equal two vestiges of the steamer remain upriously hurt him! He wasrelieved ina degree, Grass Valloy maintains her wellon the rocks. few minates of his weighty responsibiliearned reputation, In regard to this So perished tho S. §. Lewis, and thus. ty, and is now quite well, save the temnd other topics, I prosose to address . has she sunk in the embrace of ocean in porary effeots of close packing. you from time to time, as leisure and . g single night. Looking upon her wreck Cats are on the increase, and rats, our your space will permit. {one would almost imagine it te be the supreme domestic pest, (I know nothing . Yours, truly, J.W. . romains of a vessel lost in the latter of the recreations of a vixen wife,) are . SARA ERIN . part of the last century. » . cal and instantly pervaded it. All who were in it were stricken down as if wilted by the heat. ‘They were scalded frightfally, externally, and all inhaled the fearful steam. Net one escaped ; they were all killed instantly.tor have . since died. Many of them had their clothes literally tern from them; the skin was entirely burnt off their faces and bodies. ‘The sight they presented was horrible beyond description; they were ive i scalded, but all were more or less mangled by the fragments of the boiler and bulk-head, and streams of blood flowed frem their mutilated bodies Some few of the gentlemen managed to grope their way out of the cabin crying iteously to those above to save thir wives and children. When some of the yassengers who were unhurt rushed below, the sight that presented itself staggered them, and some became faint.— They found the dead and the dying in a confused mass on the floor, covered with fragments of chairs, tables, furniture and timber, and horrible to relate they were writhing in scalding water, which lay six inches deep on rt aay oor little children were erying piteously fer their mothers, who could dg bat blindedicould not see. Mothers were shrieking with agony or calling on some one to save their children. ‘The pictare, even in recollec. tion, is heart-rending. Such was the scenes in the cabin. The volume of steam struck, as we have said,’against the bulkhead in the rear of the oiler—the greater portion burst through the cabin on its mission of death, whilst another portion recoiled and rushed forward killing Instantly one of the firemen, who was standing in front of the furnace doors, mortally scalding another who was on the forward deck, and kiling several passengers who were standing on the forward part of the lower déck. Those of the passengers who were standing on the forward part of the upper deck were neatly allsaved, A few only were scalded, and those not dangerously. Those on a most rapid numerical decline. . ; By! Rarrirs.—Charley Young presented to by, this 9 oe af rightly peony ' his friends and the public (which tneans the . tleliniot thé sallMcoieemsennton and will *4™° thing) a fine lot of valuable watches, not compare badly in importanee, with ‘jewelry, &c., in a raffle the last week. se Martin Van Buren’s project for’ the in. Was drawn on Saturday evening last, at Mrs. troduction of blood-hounds ints Florida . Frisbie’s saloon, to the full satisfaction of to belake the war-like Seminoles. Rats! ticket-holders. The highest prize was a tax our State thousands of dollars daily ; . enlondia eol tch, valued at $200. I object to it; we suffer sufficiently in eee wrod nore saa Nd ie this way by lovofoco administrations. — learn he designs to offer another at an carly The feline tribe, however, arc justly apday, and we doubt not with equal success, as preciated, anid the market is. firm, athe is so well known in this community that from eight to twenty doliars apicce, ace . his name is a sure guarantee against any cording to the kind. suspicion of unfairness or humbug : The steamers Goliah and the Active were busily eccupied during the whole morning yesterday in transporting passengers from the beach (at the mouth of Bolinas me) to their decks. The ladies were all recalled from the saw mill and safely, with the exception of a slight wetting, put on bvard the steamers. The U. 3. reyenuo cutter Frolie, Capt. Ottinger, was also actively engagod in service at the wreck during yesterday forenoon. We understand from her agents that ithe 8. 8. Lewis was insured for $150,000 in New York. about midship, right over the boiler, were entirely uninjured. But the most terrible destruction ef life was onthe after part of the upper deck, just over the cabin. Herea large number of passengers were congregated — After the steam had done its work of destruction in the cabin, it burst up the companion way and in an instant swept those in its path to the deck, like grain before the sickle. Not a man around stood; fifty lay prostrate, scalded, wounded, shricking ‘with agony or moaning in the last moments of life. It is impossible to state as yet, how many have been killed and scalded.’ It will not fall short of fifty. The Coroner is now engaged in holding inqnests on the bodies of the deceased,