February 25, 1853 (4 pages)

a ad THE JOURNAL, BUDD & SARGENT, Ofice on Broad street, opposite the Court . necting wich other lines of Railroad, riv-, mit and the plains of the Sacramento . and San Joaquin, and consist of two disBouse. TERMS. for ono year, in advance #7 00 Six months 4 00 Three months 2 00 Bingle copies, 25 c's. ae LEGAL BLANKS of all kinds for sale at this office. JOB WORK of all kinds speedily and Reatly executed. ADVERTISEMENTS, to insure insertion, should be banded in as early as Thursday noon. Rates moderate, JAMES M. PARKER, is our agent at San Francisco, at Wesp & Co's Paper Warehouse, on Clay street. All advertise ments sent through him will receive prowpt Attention. f A. DELANO & Co are our agents at Grass Valle7, at Wells, Fargo & Co.'s. From the Sacramento Union. Report. The committee appointed by a meeting of the citiz'ns cf Sacramento to attend a meeting at Grass Valley, beg leive most respectfully to submit the fellowing report. A portion of your committee, consisting of tive members, (the other members being unable to go,) attended a large and respectable meeting of the people of Grass Vailey, Nevada and vicinity, beld at the former place on the 12:h day of February. 1853. at which they met mos! ef the influential and interesting inhabStante from those places, rs also committees from Marysvilleand Auburn, Tho respective merits of the two routes for a Plank Roal from Marysville by way of Rough and Ready and Grass Valley to Nevada. and from Sacramento city by way of Auburn and Grass Valley io Ne wada, were very fully discussed by the committees from Marysville, Auburn and Sueramento At the close of the meeting. a committee consisting of six fron Nevada and fiye from Grass Vailey, was appointed by the chairman to confer wit) the several committees from Marysville. Auburn and Sacramento, as to the proper time te open separate Looks for subseribing to thes ock of boch roads. The -everal committees met the same evening at Grass Valley, and by mutual @onsent it was agreed, that books for the stack «f both roads should be opened in Grasa Valley and Nevada on the 28th of the present month. and that the comtistees of Sacramento and Muarysvi le, should report on that day te the committees of Nevada and Grass Val ey. any previons proceedings bad by the citizens of Varveville und Seeramento. lt was also agreed that one delegate from each eommittee should repair to Benicia on Wednesday the 16th inst. and urge upen the attention ef the Legislature the . propricty und nec-ssity of certain as mendments to the Act of the 22d April, 1850, in referenee to ‘ Corporations,” and pariculurly the chapt rin relation to © plank snd turnpike reads.” There exists in our commusity eonsiderable difference of opinion as to the re. lative merits ofa Plank or Railroad for the proposed route. Your committee en. tertain no doubt that in the present condition of the country, a Plank Road would be greatly preterable to a RuailRoad; and whether the time will ever arrive when so short’ a Railroad would be wore desirable and proti able than a Plank Road. your committee consider . problematieal. It is well known that farther transportation of heavy articles . especially for short distance and where ; time is not so important, that canals and . rivers are superior, and Vlank Roads at least equal to Railroads. Thove is perhaps more travel in the United States in proportion to population. than in any other county in the world. his avisus from the vast extent of our Country —the settlement and admission of new States—the great div-rsity in climate and productions —the difference in geographical position, and the perfeet freedom of comme: ce among the several Sates. ‘The West, turn dependent upon those for certain grain and provisions. These causes make” the internal commerce of the country . much greater than its foreign, and give rise very naturally to the immense travel between different sections of our Union. Itis then not at all surprising that the trave! of the twenty-five millions of restless and enterprising people, with so much internal commerce, and so many new States to populate, should crente a great demand for Railroads NEVADA, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 25, 1853. . saoh roads. It is evident that the travjel upon a short Railroad not connecting . with any ether line of travel, must be i merely local, and therefore limited in . amount, and no! susceptible of the same . rate of increase as upon other roads, conextensive und.accessible forests of goud pine, to be found on our coast. it is be‘lieved. grow along a Jine ruaning paralda, and about midway between the sam‘er or stage travel. jit . Applying these reasons to oar propos. tinct species or varietivs. found in about . ed route. we shall find that its distance equal proportions. The first a species of ‘is abont sixty miles—that its terminusis: the pitch pine, of hard, firm texture. . wt a mountain mining town beyond which; very suitable for joists, seantling and . there is not now. and never can be, any flooring: and the other the sugar pine, . long or considerab e lines of travel—that of fine. soft and smooth texture, equal to . the great mass of the population tribu. the best pine of the Kast, from which , ‘ \ tary to the road will reside along its) can be mado clear lumber of the finest . \ line. and near its terminus at Nevada . quality. It is believed that the most ac. Tt wiil also be seen. that although in pro-. ccssible pints to this fine timber are to . portion to population there isan immense’ be found along the proposed road; and famount of travel in the mining regions, for that reasou, that lumber can be sawn . of California, still it is the transporta~. there and sent to this city and San Frantion of heavy articles that constitutes . cisco, as well as to other points, cheaper ithe main demand for this road The) than at any other’ place in the State, or people in the mines are conpelled to. upon this coast. . } transport by land all their provisions. . grain, hay, clothing, furniture. ma-. toad when completed, would be to lessen chinery and implements—in short, all. the cost of transportation at all seasons the necessaries and comfortsof life ; and. of the year to and from Nevada, Grass in turn they will give us gold, lumber. Valley and Auburn. from fifty to sixty stone, and lime. per cent., a» teams would then be able . In addition to these reasons. your com-. to draw about twice the quantity, and . mittee cannot but think that the differ-. make the trip in about half the time it ence in the cost of construction is much {now occupies. with a great saving in the greater than was supposed by many in-. wear and tear of their teams and wugtelligent persons. From an extract pub-jons. This result would greatly diminish . lished in a late number ot the Times and. the expen-es of living in the minzs ac. Transcript, and taken from the last Jan-. ¢essible to the road; and your commit-uary number of the “ American Rail-. tee are well satisfied that then lumber way ‘rwde.” it appears that “on the Ist}ofany quality, and in any quantity deof January, 1853. there were in the Uni-. sired, could be furnished at the mills for ted States 13.227 miles of completed . $20, at this city for 30. and at San tnilroad ; 12.928 miles of railroad in va-. Franciseo and other points below at from rious stages of progress. and abou! seven . 239 to $40 per thousand, which is cheapthousand miles in the hands of the en-. er than lumber from the East, and gineers, which will be built within the would necessarily soon prevent its imnext three or four'years—making a to-. portation fiom that quarter. tal of 38,155 miles of railroad, at an avIf we are correct in the views we have erage cost of $30,000 (a well ascertained . expressed, the great importance of this amount) for each mile of road, including . work becomes at once apparent. It equipments. etc. This estimate of the would open new markets to the people railroads of the United States differs ma-. ol that portion of the mine< near the ‘terially from that published by the cen: foad, for tveirlamber and other building sus office, and that by Mr. Andrews in/ materials, and would give to Sacramenhis lite report to government —but is . tu city a new source of business hy mabased upon actual ascertainments . king her a mart for the sale of large Both of these dvcuments. however, re. quan'ities of lumber, and greatly diminfer io a date anterior to 1853 ” ish the cost of building. It would preWe think it may be very safely as-. serve the trade between the points con‘sumed thit the proposed toute is not bet. nected by this road, free from interrupterthan the average of the different . tion, and would greatly add to the staroutes in the other States of the Union. . bility of business. P If then the averige cost per mile of oth-. Your committee are sati-fied that the er roads be $30.000 what would it. cost, time for actiun has arrived, and that the per mile in this country, where Iabor., people of Auburn, Grass Valley and Netransportation, and every thing else is Vada will most cheerfuily subscribe libso mach higher than elsewh-re, and . erally to this read, They ure fully sen‘where we should be compelled to bri yg . sible of its permanent importance to ‘from other points every thing used in. them, as weil as to us, and that the the construction of the road, except the stock would be profitable to all conrequisite lumber! Aud alter the rail-. cerned. ! rond should be constructed we should . Your committee would therefore fughave bu imited facilities for repuire of) gest the propriety of appoin'ing & com machinery ; buton the contrary we have. mittee to open books for subseribing to all the muterials here at home for the. the stock of this road at Sacramento const! uction and repair of Plank Roads . city, San Francisco and Auburn, on the From the best estimate we have been . ——— day of February 1833 i enabled to make, the cost of a Plouk All of which is most respectfully sub. Road sixteen feet wide along the pio-. mitted Erte ne OP . posed route, would net exceed $20 000 PETER. BURNETT, Chin of Com. /per mile. It would require 237,600 feet ‘ tote fof thee inch lumber. board measure. The S. F. Herald says, two young gencoarse to admit of plining. The only lel with the summit of the Sierra Neva. The legitimate effects of the proposed . i Per Adams & Co's Express. ARRIVAL OF . . SLEWEN DAYS LATER. The Golden Gate arrived at San Fran. cisco on the morning of Feb. 19th, at a. bout 71-2 o'clock, bringing the mails. WHOLE NO., 148. prominent among which has been the discussion of Mr. Cass’ ‘(Monroe Resolution,” abit ie called. This revolution THE GOLDEN GATE, was taken up in the Senate en the J8th ult., when Mr. Cass supported it by art ‘elcquent epeech, which was followed by remarks from Mr, Butler, Mr. Soule and others. A correspondent of the N. Y. Herald /andnlarge number of passengrrs that ! at Washington states that in view of the , lefs New York on the 20th. Advices! present complex state of our foreign rearc up tothe 22d from New Orleans, . lations. the proper committes of the SenThe Golden Gate has made a pleasant . passage notwithstanding the great am. ount of sickness with which her passen. gers have been afflicted. A number of . . deaths occurred on the trip. By this arrival we sincerely regret to, . learn the death of Mr. W.C. Haminton, . one of the editors of the San Francisco . . Herald Mr. Hamilton had gone ena . . ward to make arrangements for the bu-; . siness welfare of that es'ablishment, and . "was returning to ‘esume his post on the . . Herald when assailed by the malignant . . disease so prevalent on the Isthmus. He died on board the Golden Gate on , the 10th inst. We have not learned} the particulars of his illness. We ex. tend to our bereaved confreres our deep. est symputhy in this sudden and painful . affliction. . The following is the report of the Golden Gate’s passage : The U. S. Mail Steamship Golden Gate. C. P. Patterson, U. 8S. N., commander, arrived this morning from Pa. nama, which port she left on the 5th, at (20 1-2 P.M. The Golden Gate brings a large mail, also a large number of pas. sengers, among which are 120 ladies, and 50 children. The steamer Winfield . . Scott was to leave the next morning, . . Feb, 6th. for San Franciseo Feb 11th} j arrived at Acapulco; detained 12 hours . ; The steamer Independence from San . Juan for San Francisco left Acapulco on . the 10th inst. The P. M.S. Co.'s stea; mer Tennessee. hence for Panama, left . Acapu'co on the 9th inst. The British . barque Lochliho with coals to P. M. 8. . Co. discharging. The barques Common'wealth and Ottowa ballasting, would . }leave ina few days. 18th—In the Gulf of California, pussed steamer Independence, for San Fianci-co. l4th— Saw ‘an English vessel of war at anchor onder Cape St. Lucas; also a whaleship stand. ing out. 17th—Spoke P. M. steamer, ; Panama, hence for Panama five miles} ; to the southward ofSan Diego. 17th—. . Arrived at San Diego; detained three . hours. 18th —Arrived at Monterey ; . detained two hours. The news by the Golden Gate is va-. . ried and interesiing, but we do not find . ‘much that is important. . Mr. Elias Hicks, of the firm of Frost . . & Hicks, and President of the Chamber . of Commerce, died on the 9th ult,” . . On the evening of the 10th a fire broke . ate are contemplating the importance of increasing the efficiency of the army and nary. It is probable they will recommend the employment of a therough steam murine, and a thorough fortification of the Pacific const. Every thing now betokens that Congress will carry. out to the letter the precepts of Washington, Jefferson, Monroe, and others of our illustrious countrymen of by-gone days. Let us be fully prepared to meet and drive back any trouble that may hereafter present itself from abroad. A railroad to the Pacific has been the theme of animated discussion, in which Mr. Benton and Mr. Gwin took active parts. Nothing has been done. The New York Branch Mint Bill was under discussion. A communication was received from the President, transmitting information respecting tle Seminoles in Florida, The President states that inasmuch as all efforts for the remova! of the Indians i :. have proved abortive, the only remains { ing alternative 1s either to compel them by force to comply with their treaty stipulations, or to continue to them the privilege of temporary occupation of tho territory in acvordance with the are rangement in 1842. The President calls attention te the peril ous position of the white residents, arising from the prox imity of the savages. The whole matier is submitted to Congress for adjustment. The mes-age was referred to the Comé mittee on Naval Affairs. A message on the Amistad case was also received and referred. The Gardiner Commissioners, whe were app»inted on motion of Senator Soule, to search for the Mexiean silver mine of Col. Gardiner, have returned te Washington. ‘The Commis-ion consiste of Messrs. Buckingham, Smith, Henry, May, Lieut. Hunter, and others. . Mr. Hargous and several other Americans came with the Commissioners. It is stated that it is the universal belief in Mexico that the claim is fraudu!ent.— Commissioners travelled sixteen hundred miles on mule-back. but found no trace of the silver. The facts have already been Jaid before Mr. Soule, Chairman of the Senate committee on the claim, whose repert will probably soon be rendered. Gardiner’s trial will proceed ae soon as the facts already ascertnined are communicated to the District Attorney. Hon. Benjamin Fitzpatrick has beem appointed U. S. Senator from Alabama, South, . and South-west are dependent mainly . upon the East and North for most of . their manufactures, and these are in, which from inquiries we made, we thick could be bad at the mills for $40 pe: ‘thousand, and delivered upon the road for SLO per thousund—m kisg the cost of the lunber amount to the suin of $11830 per mie, leaving the suin of $8.120 . per mile for grading and other expenses In this estimate we bave not included ,any allowance for string pieces upon . Which to jy lace the plank. as our inquiries sitisfied us thet the most approved and simple mode of constructing such roads is to lay the plinks flat upon the ground, after it has been properly g aded Another and very material reason for preterring a Plank toa Railroad at prej sent, is to be found in the fact that the . owners of the numero:s saw mills along . the route will subscribe most liberaily , to the lank Road to be paid in lumber. . when they would not sub cribe to a . Railroad, to be paid in cash, . Auburn, Grass Valley and Nevada, will at once be apparent to every ons. well known that the fine and fertile agricultaral yal eys of Ca ifornia are destitute of timber for building purposes, and that all our cities and towns not situated in the mines are dependent upon othe: points for a supply of timber. I'he pro posed route from this side of Auburn aloiy its whole line to Nevada, is skirted by immense forests of pine, affording inexhaustible supplies of timber of th: Pie great and paramount importance . of the proposed road to Sacramento city. . knocked overboard a boy five years o!d, , passage money out, and five thousand . unteers open until the 4th of May, when It is tlemen returning at a late hour from a wedding party, and being somewhat the worse of the gvod things wherewith the bride had regaled her guests, disputed concerning the lady’s charms, the brideyroom's merit, the quality of the wine, or some such point connected with the . ntertainment, and not being in a con, dition to express their respective opin. Fons in language suffiviently forcible, un. dertook to convince each other by the ipplication of downright blows, In conjderation of its being a wedding night, the Recorder let them off with a fine of } do. Sunpay AMUSEMENT.—Two men en. gaged ina melee on Pacific Wharf at Francisco on Sunday afternoon, San who was a spectator of the scene, and j then fell over themselves, locked in a iclose embrace. The three were res. cued without material damage. } . wa. Beef is selling at Sonora at 37 1-2 Flour was 15 cents. cents per pound, Puaxk Rea p.—Books for subscriptions ire opened at Marysville at the U.S. lout in New York, in ward school No. 2, . t succeed Mr. King. . curtaining 2000 scholars, all of whom. It is understood that Senator Stockton . were rescued without accident, and the . beg resign. oy will vey a so if . : , he can succeed in getting his brother. flames promptly extinguished. \in-law, Mr. Thompson, elected in hie It is reported in New York that the’ piace. The Commodore is anxious to gat . gentlemen concerned in the Ericsson . the Navy Department. are 60 well satisfied with theexperiment. The annual report of the Secretary of that they are preparing to lay keels for. Treasury Soran have been sent to several much larger ships, to be proJongress on the 20th. Some statixtics Gi : are given relative to the financial con. pelled by the Ericsson engine. Atleast! dition of the country, which embraco the . six of these shipsof the e«pacity of 4000 principal features of the document. . tons will probably be built during the, A bill passed the Legislature of Florpresent year. ida to authorizo the raising of two regi« ini ee sie ments of volunteers for Indian service. — _ The Rev. A. Livermore, of the Unita. 4 cording to the Floridian, the bill pro. Tian Church of Cincinnati, bas received . vides that the regiments raised be ten /a call to become pastor of the Unitarian . dered toGovernment, and if refused: the’ ‘church in San Francisco, California, with Governor then to employ them in re. : : , moving the savag's, The Governor ie the terms of one thousand dollars for required to keep the tender of the vole . dollars salary per annum. . if noi accepted, and nothing be done toLarge purchases of flodr are made dai. Wards removing the Indians, the State liyin New York city for shipment to. will then go to warkand do the business rf ali herself. ere Senator Upham, of Vermont, died nt . Messrs. Newell and Bailey, who were Washington on the Ith inst., of vario, injured by the railroad disaster at And. loid, after about ten days sickness, aged ‘over, have since died. ria py wife yeidirars from ic Sagar & . Gen. Pierce has returned to Concord, . ee et en ee ee Moaelad lela tet he died, rain Aesth Bo ie ka Wm. G Crosby, Whig, waa elected Cee : : , for this project. . finest description. One of the most rich Hotel, fi pro) jand extensive mining regions in the . State will become tributary to the road . At Grass Valley, Nevada and Auburn j and in the vicinity of those places, ther: . are many steany and water sav mills alAnnert PurnaM.—This young man who, some two months ago, was shot in Sacramento by an abandoned woman, named Fanny Seymour, is now not ex. Madam Kossuth. wife of the celebra. . ted Hungarian Chief. died in Brussels) (on the 28th December. . The Clinton Hall Association of New . York have purchased the Astor Place Opera House for the Mercantile Library . Governor of Maine, by the Senate, on the 14th, the vote being 17 to 14. From New Orucans.—By the Daily Picayune of the 221, we learn that on the 4th of January proposals were submitted to the French Minister of Finance, to contract for all the Govern. connecting the different sections, and . ready in operation, and many more in pected to live. The marderess, who was . 4 ciation; at a cost of $150.000. should constitute their principal suport. The history of Railronds in our country shows that the first lines were constructed on the Atlantic Sea Board, and as th se lines were extended in the direction of the great South and West, the various streams of travel from these latter sections. were concentrated upon theny and thus made their stock prot table “We tind very few Railroads com. teted in any of the western or southern Boer stateg. for the reason that thore is no commerce anid very few peopie out side of them, to afford that travel eo ne. process of construction, At Grass Vai . ley there are several Quartz Mills now . in successful operation, and others in . Process of erection. . The timber heretofore used in Cali fornia for building, has been manly . brought from Oregon, the northern po tion of this State and frem the Atlant eoust around Cape Horn. In Oregon an in the northern portion of this State there is no timber suitable fur fine lum ber, such as is required fur the insid: work of a building. The red. and yei low fire of those places make excellen piles, hewn timbers for framing, jois let out on the paltry bail of $3000, has tbseonded ; and according to the Union, . the eolleetion of the bail is extremely problema tical. vem. Alarms of fire are common in San francisco. Look out for a scorcher ! Professor Emerson, a son in law of . Lord Jeffrey, and one of the most valiable contributors to the Edinburg? Review is dead. Ile eestary to the profitable existence ef}and scantling, but the textnre is tou} laylebury, Hert’s. , . Operas at popular prices. was Professor . of the Law, at the East India college, ment Transatlantic lines of steamers, among which were six steamships of 800 tensive dealers in British and French horse power, to Martinique and Cbagres. Panama Inreviionscer.—We have goods, No. 36, Cedar street, New York. , F was consumed on the evening of the 19th . P" Pers to alee ay, OF the Echo we copy the following : ult. Loss $100,000. fully insured. ‘ , Sontag has. engaged Castle Garden uate pepe ienelid fetoucdietl be oe . New York city, from May to August . .ydden serious illness among our foreign ; hext, and will give a series of summer . residents. an epee ON THE CuAcags Rivea.—~ . : e regret to learn from a gentleman From Washington. who arrived in town last night, that Congress has been occupied with a va. thera was a rumor circulated at Craces . riety of business since eur Inst advices,. just befere ho left, that a party wh> . The warehouse of Messrs. Beade. ex-

a ad THE JOURNAL, BUDD & SARGENT, Ofice on Broad street, opposite the Court . necting wich other lines of Railroad, riv-, mit and the plains of the Sacramento . and San Joaquin, and consist of two disBouse. TERMS. for ono year, in advance #7 00 Six months 4 00 Three months 2 00 Bingle copies, 25 c's. ae LEGAL BLANKS of all kinds for sale at this office. JOB WORK of all kinds speedily and Reatly executed. ADVERTISEMENTS, to insure insertion, should be banded in as early as Thursday noon. Rates moderate, JAMES M. PARKER, is our agent at San Francisco, at Wesp & Co's Paper Warehouse, on Clay street. All advertise ments sent through him will receive prowpt Attention. f A. DELANO & Co are our agents at Grass Valle7, at Wells, Fargo & Co.'s. From the Sacramento Union. Report. The committee appointed by a meeting of the citiz'ns cf Sacramento to attend a meeting at Grass Valley, beg leive most respectfully to submit the fellowing report. A portion of your committee, consisting of tive members, (the other members being unable to go,) attended a large and respectable meeting of the people of Grass Vailey, Nevada and vicinity, beld at the former place on the 12:h day of February. 1853. at which they met mos! ef the influential and interesting inhabStante from those places, rs also committees from Marysvilleand Auburn, Tho respective merits of the two routes for a Plank Roal from Marysville by way of Rough and Ready and Grass Valley to Nevada. and from Sacramento city by way of Auburn and Grass Valley io Ne wada, were very fully discussed by the committees from Marysville, Auburn and Sueramento At the close of the meeting. a committee consisting of six fron Nevada and fiye from Grass Vailey, was appointed by the chairman to confer wit) the several committees from Marysville. Auburn and Sacramento, as to the proper time te open separate Looks for subseribing to thes ock of boch roads. The -everal committees met the same evening at Grass Valley, and by mutual @onsent it was agreed, that books for the stack «f both roads should be opened in Grasa Valley and Nevada on the 28th of the present month. and that the comtistees of Sacramento and Muarysvi le, should report on that day te the committees of Nevada and Grass Val ey. any previons proceedings bad by the citizens of Varveville und Seeramento. lt was also agreed that one delegate from each eommittee should repair to Benicia on Wednesday the 16th inst. and urge upen the attention ef the Legislature the . propricty und nec-ssity of certain as mendments to the Act of the 22d April, 1850, in referenee to ‘ Corporations,” and pariculurly the chapt rin relation to © plank snd turnpike reads.” There exists in our commusity eonsiderable difference of opinion as to the re. lative merits ofa Plank or Railroad for the proposed route. Your committee en. tertain no doubt that in the present condition of the country, a Plank Road would be greatly preterable to a RuailRoad; and whether the time will ever arrive when so short’ a Railroad would be wore desirable and proti able than a Plank Road. your committee consider . problematieal. It is well known that farther transportation of heavy articles . especially for short distance and where ; time is not so important, that canals and . rivers are superior, and Vlank Roads at least equal to Railroads. Thove is perhaps more travel in the United States in proportion to population. than in any other county in the world. his avisus from the vast extent of our Country —the settlement and admission of new States—the great div-rsity in climate and productions —the difference in geographical position, and the perfeet freedom of comme: ce among the several Sates. ‘The West, turn dependent upon those for certain grain and provisions. These causes make” the internal commerce of the country . much greater than its foreign, and give rise very naturally to the immense travel between different sections of our Union. Itis then not at all surprising that the trave! of the twenty-five millions of restless and enterprising people, with so much internal commerce, and so many new States to populate, should crente a great demand for Railroads NEVADA, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 25, 1853. . saoh roads. It is evident that the travjel upon a short Railroad not connecting . with any ether line of travel, must be i merely local, and therefore limited in . amount, and no! susceptible of the same . rate of increase as upon other roads, conextensive und.accessible forests of goud pine, to be found on our coast. it is be‘lieved. grow along a Jine ruaning paralda, and about midway between the sam‘er or stage travel. jit . Applying these reasons to oar propos. tinct species or varietivs. found in about . ed route. we shall find that its distance equal proportions. The first a species of ‘is abont sixty miles—that its terminusis: the pitch pine, of hard, firm texture. . wt a mountain mining town beyond which; very suitable for joists, seantling and . there is not now. and never can be, any flooring: and the other the sugar pine, . long or considerab e lines of travel—that of fine. soft and smooth texture, equal to . the great mass of the population tribu. the best pine of the Kast, from which , ‘ \ tary to the road will reside along its) can be mado clear lumber of the finest . \ line. and near its terminus at Nevada . quality. It is believed that the most ac. Tt wiil also be seen. that although in pro-. ccssible pints to this fine timber are to . portion to population there isan immense’ be found along the proposed road; and famount of travel in the mining regions, for that reasou, that lumber can be sawn . of California, still it is the transporta~. there and sent to this city and San Frantion of heavy articles that constitutes . cisco, as well as to other points, cheaper ithe main demand for this road The) than at any other’ place in the State, or people in the mines are conpelled to. upon this coast. . } transport by land all their provisions. . grain, hay, clothing, furniture. ma-. toad when completed, would be to lessen chinery and implements—in short, all. the cost of transportation at all seasons the necessaries and comfortsof life ; and. of the year to and from Nevada, Grass in turn they will give us gold, lumber. Valley and Auburn. from fifty to sixty stone, and lime. per cent., a» teams would then be able . In addition to these reasons. your com-. to draw about twice the quantity, and . mittee cannot but think that the differ-. make the trip in about half the time it ence in the cost of construction is much {now occupies. with a great saving in the greater than was supposed by many in-. wear and tear of their teams and wugtelligent persons. From an extract pub-jons. This result would greatly diminish . lished in a late number ot the Times and. the expen-es of living in the minzs ac. Transcript, and taken from the last Jan-. ¢essible to the road; and your commit-uary number of the “ American Rail-. tee are well satisfied that then lumber way ‘rwde.” it appears that “on the Ist}ofany quality, and in any quantity deof January, 1853. there were in the Uni-. sired, could be furnished at the mills for ted States 13.227 miles of completed . $20, at this city for 30. and at San tnilroad ; 12.928 miles of railroad in va-. Franciseo and other points below at from rious stages of progress. and abou! seven . 239 to $40 per thousand, which is cheapthousand miles in the hands of the en-. er than lumber from the East, and gineers, which will be built within the would necessarily soon prevent its imnext three or four'years—making a to-. portation fiom that quarter. tal of 38,155 miles of railroad, at an avIf we are correct in the views we have erage cost of $30,000 (a well ascertained . expressed, the great importance of this amount) for each mile of road, including . work becomes at once apparent. It equipments. etc. This estimate of the would open new markets to the people railroads of the United States differs ma-. ol that portion of the mine< near the ‘terially from that published by the cen: foad, for tveirlamber and other building sus office, and that by Mr. Andrews in/ materials, and would give to Sacramenhis lite report to government —but is . tu city a new source of business hy mabased upon actual ascertainments . king her a mart for the sale of large Both of these dvcuments. however, re. quan'ities of lumber, and greatly diminfer io a date anterior to 1853 ” ish the cost of building. It would preWe think it may be very safely as-. serve the trade between the points con‘sumed thit the proposed toute is not bet. nected by this road, free from interrupterthan the average of the different . tion, and would greatly add to the staroutes in the other States of the Union. . bility of business. P If then the averige cost per mile of oth-. Your committee are sati-fied that the er roads be $30.000 what would it. cost, time for actiun has arrived, and that the per mile in this country, where Iabor., people of Auburn, Grass Valley and Netransportation, and every thing else is Vada will most cheerfuily subscribe libso mach higher than elsewh-re, and . erally to this read, They ure fully sen‘where we should be compelled to bri yg . sible of its permanent importance to ‘from other points every thing used in. them, as weil as to us, and that the the construction of the road, except the stock would be profitable to all conrequisite lumber! Aud alter the rail-. cerned. ! rond should be constructed we should . Your committee would therefore fughave bu imited facilities for repuire of) gest the propriety of appoin'ing & com machinery ; buton the contrary we have. mittee to open books for subseribing to all the muterials here at home for the. the stock of this road at Sacramento const! uction and repair of Plank Roads . city, San Francisco and Auburn, on the From the best estimate we have been . ——— day of February 1833 i enabled to make, the cost of a Plouk All of which is most respectfully sub. Road sixteen feet wide along the pio-. mitted Erte ne OP . posed route, would net exceed $20 000 PETER. BURNETT, Chin of Com. /per mile. It would require 237,600 feet ‘ tote fof thee inch lumber. board measure. The S. F. Herald says, two young gencoarse to admit of plining. The only lel with the summit of the Sierra Neva. The legitimate effects of the proposed . i Per Adams & Co's Express. ARRIVAL OF . . SLEWEN DAYS LATER. The Golden Gate arrived at San Fran. cisco on the morning of Feb. 19th, at a. bout 71-2 o'clock, bringing the mails. WHOLE NO., 148. prominent among which has been the discussion of Mr. Cass’ ‘(Monroe Resolution,” abit ie called. This revolution THE GOLDEN GATE, was taken up in the Senate en the J8th ult., when Mr. Cass supported it by art ‘elcquent epeech, which was followed by remarks from Mr, Butler, Mr. Soule and others. A correspondent of the N. Y. Herald /andnlarge number of passengrrs that ! at Washington states that in view of the , lefs New York on the 20th. Advices! present complex state of our foreign rearc up tothe 22d from New Orleans, . lations. the proper committes of the SenThe Golden Gate has made a pleasant . passage notwithstanding the great am. ount of sickness with which her passen. gers have been afflicted. A number of . . deaths occurred on the trip. By this arrival we sincerely regret to, . learn the death of Mr. W.C. Haminton, . one of the editors of the San Francisco . . Herald Mr. Hamilton had gone ena . . ward to make arrangements for the bu-; . siness welfare of that es'ablishment, and . "was returning to ‘esume his post on the . . Herald when assailed by the malignant . . disease so prevalent on the Isthmus. He died on board the Golden Gate on , the 10th inst. We have not learned} the particulars of his illness. We ex. tend to our bereaved confreres our deep. est symputhy in this sudden and painful . affliction. . The following is the report of the Golden Gate’s passage : The U. S. Mail Steamship Golden Gate. C. P. Patterson, U. 8S. N., commander, arrived this morning from Pa. nama, which port she left on the 5th, at (20 1-2 P.M. The Golden Gate brings a large mail, also a large number of pas. sengers, among which are 120 ladies, and 50 children. The steamer Winfield . . Scott was to leave the next morning, . . Feb, 6th. for San Franciseo Feb 11th} j arrived at Acapulco; detained 12 hours . ; The steamer Independence from San . Juan for San Francisco left Acapulco on . the 10th inst. The P. M.S. Co.'s stea; mer Tennessee. hence for Panama, left . Acapu'co on the 9th inst. The British . barque Lochliho with coals to P. M. 8. . Co. discharging. The barques Common'wealth and Ottowa ballasting, would . }leave ina few days. 18th—In the Gulf of California, pussed steamer Independence, for San Fianci-co. l4th— Saw ‘an English vessel of war at anchor onder Cape St. Lucas; also a whaleship stand. ing out. 17th—Spoke P. M. steamer, ; Panama, hence for Panama five miles} ; to the southward ofSan Diego. 17th—. . Arrived at San Diego; detained three . hours. 18th —Arrived at Monterey ; . detained two hours. The news by the Golden Gate is va-. . ried and interesiing, but we do not find . ‘much that is important. . Mr. Elias Hicks, of the firm of Frost . . & Hicks, and President of the Chamber . of Commerce, died on the 9th ult,” .

. On the evening of the 10th a fire broke . ate are contemplating the importance of increasing the efficiency of the army and nary. It is probable they will recommend the employment of a therough steam murine, and a thorough fortification of the Pacific const. Every thing now betokens that Congress will carry. out to the letter the precepts of Washington, Jefferson, Monroe, and others of our illustrious countrymen of by-gone days. Let us be fully prepared to meet and drive back any trouble that may hereafter present itself from abroad. A railroad to the Pacific has been the theme of animated discussion, in which Mr. Benton and Mr. Gwin took active parts. Nothing has been done. The New York Branch Mint Bill was under discussion. A communication was received from the President, transmitting information respecting tle Seminoles in Florida, The President states that inasmuch as all efforts for the remova! of the Indians i :. have proved abortive, the only remains { ing alternative 1s either to compel them by force to comply with their treaty stipulations, or to continue to them the privilege of temporary occupation of tho territory in acvordance with the are rangement in 1842. The President calls attention te the peril ous position of the white residents, arising from the prox imity of the savages. The whole matier is submitted to Congress for adjustment. The mes-age was referred to the Comé mittee on Naval Affairs. A message on the Amistad case was also received and referred. The Gardiner Commissioners, whe were app»inted on motion of Senator Soule, to search for the Mexiean silver mine of Col. Gardiner, have returned te Washington. ‘The Commis-ion consiste of Messrs. Buckingham, Smith, Henry, May, Lieut. Hunter, and others. . Mr. Hargous and several other Americans came with the Commissioners. It is stated that it is the universal belief in Mexico that the claim is fraudu!ent.— Commissioners travelled sixteen hundred miles on mule-back. but found no trace of the silver. The facts have already been Jaid before Mr. Soule, Chairman of the Senate committee on the claim, whose repert will probably soon be rendered. Gardiner’s trial will proceed ae soon as the facts already ascertnined are communicated to the District Attorney. Hon. Benjamin Fitzpatrick has beem appointed U. S. Senator from Alabama, South, . and South-west are dependent mainly . upon the East and North for most of . their manufactures, and these are in, which from inquiries we made, we thick could be bad at the mills for $40 pe: ‘thousand, and delivered upon the road for SLO per thousund—m kisg the cost of the lunber amount to the suin of $11830 per mie, leaving the suin of $8.120 . per mile for grading and other expenses In this estimate we bave not included ,any allowance for string pieces upon . Which to jy lace the plank. as our inquiries sitisfied us thet the most approved and simple mode of constructing such roads is to lay the plinks flat upon the ground, after it has been properly g aded Another and very material reason for preterring a Plank toa Railroad at prej sent, is to be found in the fact that the . owners of the numero:s saw mills along . the route will subscribe most liberaily , to the lank Road to be paid in lumber. . when they would not sub cribe to a . Railroad, to be paid in cash, . Auburn, Grass Valley and Nevada, will at once be apparent to every ons. well known that the fine and fertile agricultaral yal eys of Ca ifornia are destitute of timber for building purposes, and that all our cities and towns not situated in the mines are dependent upon othe: points for a supply of timber. I'he pro posed route from this side of Auburn aloiy its whole line to Nevada, is skirted by immense forests of pine, affording inexhaustible supplies of timber of th: Pie great and paramount importance . of the proposed road to Sacramento city. . knocked overboard a boy five years o!d, , passage money out, and five thousand . unteers open until the 4th of May, when It is tlemen returning at a late hour from a wedding party, and being somewhat the worse of the gvod things wherewith the bride had regaled her guests, disputed concerning the lady’s charms, the brideyroom's merit, the quality of the wine, or some such point connected with the . ntertainment, and not being in a con, dition to express their respective opin. Fons in language suffiviently forcible, un. dertook to convince each other by the ipplication of downright blows, In conjderation of its being a wedding night, the Recorder let them off with a fine of } do. Sunpay AMUSEMENT.—Two men en. gaged ina melee on Pacific Wharf at Francisco on Sunday afternoon, San who was a spectator of the scene, and j then fell over themselves, locked in a iclose embrace. The three were res. cued without material damage. } . wa. Beef is selling at Sonora at 37 1-2 Flour was 15 cents. cents per pound, Puaxk Rea p.—Books for subscriptions ire opened at Marysville at the U.S. lout in New York, in ward school No. 2, . t succeed Mr. King. . curtaining 2000 scholars, all of whom. It is understood that Senator Stockton . were rescued without accident, and the . beg resign. oy will vey a so if . : , he can succeed in getting his brother. flames promptly extinguished. \in-law, Mr. Thompson, elected in hie It is reported in New York that the’ piace. The Commodore is anxious to gat . gentlemen concerned in the Ericsson . the Navy Department. are 60 well satisfied with theexperiment. The annual report of the Secretary of that they are preparing to lay keels for. Treasury Soran have been sent to several much larger ships, to be proJongress on the 20th. Some statixtics Gi : are given relative to the financial con. pelled by the Ericsson engine. Atleast! dition of the country, which embraco the . six of these shipsof the e«pacity of 4000 principal features of the document. . tons will probably be built during the, A bill passed the Legislature of Florpresent year. ida to authorizo the raising of two regi« ini ee sie ments of volunteers for Indian service. — _ The Rev. A. Livermore, of the Unita. 4 cording to the Floridian, the bill pro. Tian Church of Cincinnati, bas received . vides that the regiments raised be ten /a call to become pastor of the Unitarian . dered toGovernment, and if refused: the’ ‘church in San Francisco, California, with Governor then to employ them in re. : : , moving the savag's, The Governor ie the terms of one thousand dollars for required to keep the tender of the vole . dollars salary per annum. . if noi accepted, and nothing be done toLarge purchases of flodr are made dai. Wards removing the Indians, the State liyin New York city for shipment to. will then go to warkand do the business rf ali herself. ere Senator Upham, of Vermont, died nt . Messrs. Newell and Bailey, who were Washington on the Ith inst., of vario, injured by the railroad disaster at And. loid, after about ten days sickness, aged ‘over, have since died. ria py wife yeidirars from ic Sagar & . Gen. Pierce has returned to Concord, . ee et en ee ee Moaelad lela tet he died, rain Aesth Bo ie ka Wm. G Crosby, Whig, waa elected Cee : : , for this project. . finest description. One of the most rich Hotel, fi pro) jand extensive mining regions in the . State will become tributary to the road . At Grass Valley, Nevada and Auburn j and in the vicinity of those places, ther: . are many steany and water sav mills alAnnert PurnaM.—This young man who, some two months ago, was shot in Sacramento by an abandoned woman, named Fanny Seymour, is now not ex. Madam Kossuth. wife of the celebra. . ted Hungarian Chief. died in Brussels) (on the 28th December. . The Clinton Hall Association of New . York have purchased the Astor Place Opera House for the Mercantile Library . Governor of Maine, by the Senate, on the 14th, the vote being 17 to 14. From New Orucans.—By the Daily Picayune of the 221, we learn that on the 4th of January proposals were submitted to the French Minister of Finance, to contract for all the Govern. connecting the different sections, and . ready in operation, and many more in pected to live. The marderess, who was . 4 ciation; at a cost of $150.000. should constitute their principal suport. The history of Railronds in our country shows that the first lines were constructed on the Atlantic Sea Board, and as th se lines were extended in the direction of the great South and West, the various streams of travel from these latter sections. were concentrated upon theny and thus made their stock prot table “We tind very few Railroads com. teted in any of the western or southern Boer stateg. for the reason that thore is no commerce anid very few peopie out side of them, to afford that travel eo ne. process of construction, At Grass Vai . ley there are several Quartz Mills now . in successful operation, and others in . Process of erection. . The timber heretofore used in Cali fornia for building, has been manly . brought from Oregon, the northern po tion of this State and frem the Atlant eoust around Cape Horn. In Oregon an in the northern portion of this State there is no timber suitable fur fine lum ber, such as is required fur the insid: work of a building. The red. and yei low fire of those places make excellen piles, hewn timbers for framing, jois let out on the paltry bail of $3000, has tbseonded ; and according to the Union, . the eolleetion of the bail is extremely problema tical. vem. Alarms of fire are common in San francisco. Look out for a scorcher ! Professor Emerson, a son in law of . Lord Jeffrey, and one of the most valiable contributors to the Edinburg? Review is dead. Ile eestary to the profitable existence ef}and scantling, but the textnre is tou} laylebury, Hert’s. , . Operas at popular prices. was Professor . of the Law, at the East India college, ment Transatlantic lines of steamers, among which were six steamships of 800 tensive dealers in British and French horse power, to Martinique and Cbagres. Panama Inreviionscer.—We have goods, No. 36, Cedar street, New York. , F was consumed on the evening of the 19th . P" Pers to alee ay, OF the Echo we copy the following : ult. Loss $100,000. fully insured. ‘ , Sontag has. engaged Castle Garden uate pepe ienelid fetoucdietl be oe . New York city, from May to August . .ydden serious illness among our foreign ; hext, and will give a series of summer . residents. an epee ON THE CuAcags Rivea.—~ . : e regret to learn from a gentleman From Washington. who arrived in town last night, that Congress has been occupied with a va. thera was a rumor circulated at Craces . riety of business since eur Inst advices,. just befere ho left, that a party wh> . The warehouse of Messrs. Beade. ex-