July 10, 1852 (4 pages)

N VOL. IL—NO. 12 THEJOURN AL PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING BY RUDD & SARGENT. ie" A. SARGENT, EDITOR. SSS IO Ohece on Broad street, opposite the Placer TTotel. TERMS. Foy one your, in advance $7 09 Six months 4 00 Three months 2 00 WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 1852. INCIDENTS OF PASSAGE. No. 11. At Torniquilla, the point of leaving the railroad, the real difficulties of the voy~ agercommence. Here he takes to the boats, under charge of Jamaica negroes, to navigate the shoal and rapid Chagres, to Cruces. Every thing is now confusion. You contract for a bont for a dozen, fo after your baggage, and when you return, find the boat shoving off with another party. Perhaps you get part of your baggage aboard, when rome more tempting offer starts off the boatmen, and you are left behind with the remainder. Thus it occurred with us. The boatmen engaged for five dollars each to take ten of us to Cruces. Getting baggage from the cars was a work of time, but it was passed out into the boat as fost as it was got at. When about half was aboard, another party prevailed on the patron, who had as much idea of honesty as an ape has of courtesy, to start off with them. Pretty soon we got the rest of our baggage into another boat, started in pursuit, and rescued the ‘ fixings.” Up the river boats can only be urged with poles, and that at a speed of about two miles per hour. The water is not more than two feet deep upon an average, and rushes on to the ocean with a speed truly astonishing. So shallow a river and so rapid a current are anomalies only explained by the nature of the banks, which continually crumble into the stream, widdening and filling its channel. At some points on the river Aro miniature maelstroms, in which a boat not skillfully managed is caught, whirled round and down stream. Snags of all kind continually occur, and many a beat is over sect by contact with them. A few months ago the entire mail for the Atlantic States got a washing from such an accident. The river is draped on each side with most beautiful evergreen, far o'erhanging the water, the dwelling place ofinnumerab'e paroquets, monkeys, lizards, &c. It was ten a. M. when we left Torniquilla, and after tedious experience, we arrived at Gorgona at nine in the evening. Now that the road from Gorgona to Panama is mostly closed, the former erases to be the great depot for transportation, and consequently wears a dull aspect. Itis simply a stopping place for the night for boats bound further up. Some passengersattempted to force their way over the Gorgona road, and arrived at last at Panama, in a woful plight. At four next morning, we started for Cruces, six miles farther up. The river was now more rapid, at times running Detween prominent cliffs of rock. It took fiye hours to complete our trip, when at last we reached the old native village, well known as the terminus of the old Luccaneers’ paved road = At ‘Cruces mules were letting for twenty dollars each, and baggage was charged for at the rate of twenty cents per pound—twice as high as two years ago. In an hour more we were travelling a la mula over the most execrable road aver tolerated in a civilized country. The mad frequently bathed our girths, and bespattered us from head to foot as the mules floundered about. In some parts the road runs over granite which js indented by the constant and regular tread of the mules tothe depth of six inches. Occasionally the road descends into narrow gorges, then rises abruptly over acclivities. Loose stones make the footing insecure to all animale save mules, which doubtless, on the principle that fortune: favors fools, seem to have, with ‘all their stupidity, the good luck to be always right side up. Toadd to our comforts, about noon rain began to pour.in torrents, while the thunder yolled: among the hills most sublimely. At dark we were five miles out of Pananaan dnb ig tice ens osetia oot cans uae tessa ccf Ranier eee emanates apneic nic aintaacgi pacha inal tani annem EVA A NEVADA, CALIFORNIA, SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 10, 1852. ma, with jaded animals, a blind road, and weariness unappreciable. ‘The sky was clouded, buta real firmament of fire flies blazed as far as the eye could see. Urging our animals to a last effort, on we dashed, through mire, darkness and uncertainty, till the lights ahead gave tyken that Panama was at hand. At nine o'clock, seated, after a bath, to a comfortable supper at the “Western,” we half forgot the fatigues of the day. The next question was for the baggage, but that was not forthcoming. Some of it dropped in the next day, some did not arrive at a!l, and the owners were compelled to leave it, or lose the steamer to go back for it. The trouble was, it was started through the day before, Corpus Christi day, an occasion when tke na~ tives will not work, but feel bound to exhibit their devotion by getting drunk and gambling. We had taken the precaution to start our baggage ahead of of us, and kept in sight of it till half way toPanama. The drivers then hurried through to enjoy the festival at Panama, while those unwatched left the baggage on the road and made tracks for Cruces. Our baggage came in atten o'clock on “Saint's day,” a piece of good fortune not to be overvalued aftera ride through mud and rain. [ To b@continued.} CaurrorniA Metnopist Press.—It is stated that the Gener1l Conference recently held at Boston cane to the dein San Francisco, devoted to the interests of Methodism, also a Book Depository. The Christian Advocate which has so ably seconded the missionary operation of the M. E, Church in this State the last half year, will be the nucleus of the publication. The Conference at Boston was well attended, and exhibited an array of talent and learning not to be surpassed by any body of equal numbers. Its determination in reference to Califoinia exhibits a comprehensiveness of operations that does it honor, Ovennanpd Roure To CaLirorNia.— The Philadelphia Sun says: An express line overland from St. Joseph’s Missouri, to Sacramento city, has been establish~ed. The first train left on the first of May, taking out the necessary stock for the several stations of the company, and the second is to leave on the 10th of June. The stations of the company are Fort Kearny, Fort Laramie, North Fork of the Platte, South Pass, Salt Lake, and the head of Humboldt. The number of wagons in each train will be ten, and the limitation of passengers forty. Time from St. Joseph to Salt Lake city twenty five days; fare $100. To Sacramento, sixty days; fare $150. termination to establ’-1 a weekly paper . Nationab Roap.—Col. Benton is out in the St. Louis district, Missouri, for Congress. Ina speech of April Ist, he expressed a wish to advocate in Congress the great national road from St. Louis to San Francisco, and says : — “Extensive enquiries among the motntain men has satisfied me that this common road could be opened on nearly straight line between St. Louis and San Francisco, crossing the Rocky mountains near the head of the Arkansas or the Del Norte, running all the way between or near the parallels of 38 and 39 degrees—-shortening the distance seveveral hundred miles— finding ground for cultivation, with wood, water and grass —passing the mountains near four de~ grees south of the South Pass, and travable earlier in the spring and later in the fall, and in sleighs all the winter. The mountain men know this route, and some three or four hundred laborers, (axe and mattock men) directed by practical country road makers, guided by mountain men who are not “too high learnt” to follow Buffalo trails, could do the work ina summer; and do itata . fraction of the cost which is now lavished upon ocean steamers, and the African squadron for the protection of the coast of Guinea. “The Indian title could be extinguished at the same time—donations to s¢ettlers granted—forts and stations estab~ lished, and the common road and the wires be ready for use between the spring budding and the fall dropping of next summer's leaves. As £oon as opened, it should be established as a post road by law, and the mails carried upon it both in coaches and upon horseback—the latter for slips and letters— the coaches to make 100 milesa day, and the horses 200, so as to clear the distance between St. Louis and San Francisco in twenty days, and in ten days respectively. The enterprising O'Reily now Offers to carry a letter mail on horseback in ten days; it would be done in eight when the straight road is opened. “The mail stage now goes with regulality and dispatch between Indepenpendence and Santa Fe; and has failed but once, and that only for one day, in the two years that it has been established. The telegrapic wires could be put up at the same time; so that. for a fraction of what we are now squandering upon the ocean steamers, we could have a national road through our own territories from the Mississippi to the Pacific, and the populations of the two sides of the continent put in communisation—in ten days by letters, in twenty days by persons, and momentarily by telegraphic dispatches. What a shame that such a work cannot be accomplished! that ovr citizens should be driven in a circuitous voyage through foreign dominions, at enormous cost, or left to fight their way through deserts and savages, exposed co robbery, murder and starvation, in a three or four months’ journey, instead of a transit of as many weeks without danger or hardship, and at small expense. Never was a great nultional measure so neglected by any government.” The schism in the Democratic ranks in the St. Louis district is being widdened and deepened by the whole powerful influenco of the eld veteran. If Queen Isanetra of Spain has given to. the weapons with which he fights are the image of Our Lady of Antocha an all as powerful as the following, the imperial crown of fine gold set with dia-. embarrassment which he will cause to monds and Brazilian topages, the whole worth $750,000; to the image of the Savior, at the same shrine, a similar crown, thcugh of course. smaller in size; and two boquets, of the size of a man’s hand, of pure diamonds. For these things, the Queen paid the Jeweler, Lovia, the enormous sum of $1,500,000. The statues have been adorned with them and placed on an altar where the public can see them; four soldiers con» stantly keep guard before the shrine. Ir is estimated that the receipts of Australian gold into England during the months of February and March amounted to four millions of pounds sterling— nearly twenty millions of dollars. That is a far greater amount than has ever) been exported from California in the . same length of time. Temperaxce.—The Sons of Temperance seem to be organising all over the State. At San Francisco there are two “Divisions,” one in Sacramento, another in Marysville, one at Grass Valley, one in Napa, &c. They united/in the pub. lic celebrations of Independence whereever they were organised. Are there not enough members to organise a Division here ? A Woman's Rights Convention was to have been held at Westchester, Chester county, Pennsylvania, on the 2d and 3d days of June. The official call for it was signed by Lucretia Mott, Sallie P. Lewis, and sundry other fair revolution ists, whose names are now somewhat famous among tsms. the ‘ammaculate” will not be slight: “T eschew this new doctrine of interfering in the affairs of Europe, mystified asit is in the cautious phrase, where caution itself betrays the danger of the idea by veiling its nakedness in a confusion of words—‘intervene to prevent intervention.’ I stand upon the ancient ways antiquais vias, of our fathers; peace and friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; good wishes to all people struggling for freedom ; acknowledgement of their independence, if successful, without inquiry into the right or wrong of the revolt; asylum to ithe vanquished, from the moment he touched the soil, or trod the deck of an American vessel; and with the rights of person and property, from the instant of his arrival among us; with all political rights in five years, if he chooses, election to the Presidency excepted. ‘This \js our ancient policy, and I adhere to it. And it surely is fag est . worth thanks, . and no doubt has them from the political unfortunate of all nations. It gives them a ceuntry in which they can make i their home, after having lost their own. It gives them a spot on which they can (stop, and turn, and stand. It is something to have such a refuge, and at ao time when continental Europe is verging to the condition of the Roman world in the last days of the Republic, and under the Empire, when the vanquished fell upon his sword, and died ; or receivthe order todie, and did it; because there was nota spot on the earth on on which he could be sheltered from the pursuit of the conqueror or the master.” Famures 1N BaLTIMORE.—Messrs. Johnson & Travers, shipping and com~ mission merchants, and J, R. Richards, dry goods, jobber, of Baltimore, have failed. They are understood to be bad failures. QUARTZ MINING REGULATIONS OF KENTUCKY ‘VALLEY DISTRICT. Ata meeting of the quartz miners of Sing Sing prison in New York. the above district; held at the Washington Hotel, Kentucky Flat, on the 13th of June, 1852, E. W. Roberts President, and L. Lowenthal Secretary, the following Regulations of “November 2d, 1851, were amended and adopted as follows: 1st. This district shall extend from the Newtown Crossing on Deer Creek, north to the Yuba river, thence west to Bridgeport, thence south to the Anthony House, thence back to the Newtown crossing. 2d. divers man shall have a right to hold one claim of one hundred and fifty (150) feet, with all the depth, angles, variations and cross-leads, on every suparate lead of quartz, by location, and toas many more as he may purchase. 3d. The discoverer of a lead shall be entitled to hold two claims by location. 4th. Where two or more claims adjoining are located by a company, a notice on any prominent object near the worked part of the lead, stating the number of claims and description of boundaries, shall be a sufficient mark, without stakes on every separate claim. 5th. The locator or purchaser of a claim or claims, shall be allowed to hold the same until machinery can be procured, provided said claim or claims be recorded in this district within one month from the time of location or purchase, and also anamount of labor equal to twenty ($20) dollars be performed thereon within the same time. 6th. Where two or more claims adjoining are held by a company, one mem-~ ber of the same, working on any part of said claims to the amount stated in Rule No. 5, shall be sufficient to represent the whole company. 7th. Ifone man holding a single claim, after recording the same, is not able to work it as above, he shall not be deprived of his title. 8th. Any man or company of men, working his or their claims every day, shall not be compelled to have the same recorded, 9th. There shall be a Recorder elected, to keep the records of all locations, sales and transfers of claims, and said records to lie open to the insnection of every miner. 10th. The Recorder shall be entitled toa fee of fifty cents for recording the location, sale, or transfer of each claim, when two or more are recorded together, and to one dollar for every single record. Resolved, That these proceedings be published in the Nevada Journal. We, the undersigned, do hereby adopt the foregoing Rules and Regulations for the future government of all quartz mining operations in this district, and have duly elected Dr. L. Lowenthal . Recorder thereof for the term of twelve mouths from 3d November, 1851. ; E. W. ROBERTS, Pres t. L. Lowentnat, Sec’y. {Signed by the quartz miners of Kentucky Valley.] INTERFSTING.—A person writing from San Francisco to the Newport News, gives the following incident as having occurred in that city : “Two very common looking persons entered the hotel this morning, just from the mines~a man and his wife. The male individual looked, for the world, like a day laborer, and the female bore a clese resemblance to an Trish scullion. She wore coarse, vulgar brogans, and to her girdle was wttached a gold watch and chain valued at least at two hundred dollars. The husband left the hotel for half an hour, and returned with a receipt for one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars, the value of the dust which he had just consigned for transportation to New York. This sum has been gained by digging; the husband dug, while the wife washed, assisted by her little son, aged about ten years.’ Morper.—A man by the name of George W. Ford, from Missouri, was murdered about five miles back of Yuba City on Sunday morning, by Jno. Clark, from Canada. ‘They had been partners for two years, and were cutting hay.— The deceased signified his intention of riding a grey mule, belonging to thom, into Marysyitle on Sunday, an d Clark objested to it. In the course of the discussion which ensued, Clark called Ferd aliar. Ford tock hold Clark and threw him down, but without doing him any injury. Clarkasked Ford to let him up, and Ford said he would if Clark would behave himself. When released, Clark said he would have revenge, and started towards the tent, some fifteen or twenty yards distant. Ford followed him, to light his pipe. Clark stepped in, in advance of him, picked up a caseknife, wheeled around and struck at him, cutting him in the pit of the stomach, below the breast bone. Ford started to run, and Clark followed him, ins flicting two more blows with the knife, under the left arm. Either of the blows must have proved mortal. Four or five persons were present, one of whom attempted to interfere, when Clark struck at him, but missed him. One of. the persons came to Marysville, the others remained; promising to take care of Clark until kis roturn, bat they allowed him to escape. He has not yet been captured. Marysville Herald.Prison Drsciriine.—Yoking is a! Beckwith [umicranr Rovutr.—A ‘ec WHOLE NO. 116. new mode of torture adopted at the We have no sympathy with the spurious philanthropy, that would make our jails as luxurious and pleasant as palaces, but these detestable instruments of torture devised by cruelty, can be productive of no good to the criminal, and no improvement of prison discipline :— The yoke is of iron, five or six feet long with a staple in the middle to encircle the neck, and one at each end to enclose the wrists. It weighs from thirty to sixty pounds, and is 80 contrived that the person can neither stand erect nor sit in any position in which he will not suffer excessive pain. Dr. Fosgate says that “under the weight of it the convict cannot retain the erect posture for even afew minutes consecutively, but is forced to bend forward in his continual writhing, which brings the entire weight of the bar upon the lower cervical vertebra. The arms are generally stretched to their full length, and from steady tension of the nerves are benumbed, while the hands turn purple, and at times become much swollen.” And instances of its effect in individual cases are also given. After his wife!— Domestic Treachery._.-A gentleman passed through here the other day, in search of his wile and her paramour, who had started across the plains a few days in advance. It appears that the parties are citizens of St. Louis, and during the husband’s protracted absence in Califors nia, a friend had succeeded—by intercepting letters and forging others——in inducing the wife to believe that he never intended to return. A thousand dollars, which he had sent to his wife, had also been intercepted and a letter Irom him forged, informing her of his desertion and marriage in California. While under the frenzied sense of this conviction, the most hellish arts were applied, and she was induced in a 1ash moment to throw herself into the arms of the seducer, pnd accompany him to California. The feelings of the unhappy husband, on his return to his desolate home+~but a few weeks after the wife-—for whom he had successfully toiled for many years--had departed forever with another,and that other his faithful friend,may,perhaps, be imagined, but cannot be described! Weare glad to learn that the trail of the fugitives have been discovered, and we trust this heartless destroyer of human happiness may receive condign punishment--such as our laws do not inflict.— Savannah, (Mo.) Sentinal, May 1. Orecon Coan.—The P, M. $. Ship Company dispatched to Oregon, some months since, Mr, French, for the purpose of examining the coal region recently discovered in that territory.-That gentleman, with the assistance of others, has not only made a therough exploration of the mines, but just returned with about eight tons of the coal brought down on the last trip of the steamer Fremont. The Antelope, on her downward trip yesterday, had a portion of this coal on board, intending to give it a thorough trial, and judging from the speed with which she left the dock,the experiment will prove perfectly successful. We were shown by Mr. Krank Johnson, agent of the Antelope, a specimen of the coal, which resembles Lehigh in appearance,although far lighter and more bituminous.—Unicn, Srirr Srory.—1in i’ckin, China, a newspaper of extraordinary size is published weekly ow silk. It issaid to have been started more than a thousand yeare ago—somewhat earlier than the one uadex the patronage of the “good Queen Sess.” effect that in 1727 a public officer caused some false intelligence to be inserted in this newspaper, for which he was put to deuth, Several nnmbera b. paper are preserved in the Boys’ rary at Paris. They are ten and a quarter yards jong. You often hear of a man “being in advance of his age,” out you never hear of a woman being in the samo predicament. Tue Cosomnes Tracepy.-—A lengthy report of ‘the committee appointed by the residents of Big Bar to examine into the circumstances of the hanging of the Frenchman, Raymond, for shooting a Chinaman, appears in the Sacramento Union of Saturday. The whole proveeding is minutely detsiled, and the con. clusion is that the guilty man deserved his fate. His brother who arrived the day after the execution, js stated te have been satisfied with the trial, a fair’ and impartial, An ahecdote is related to the b —»— ter has been received by the Mary. ville Herald, giving an secount of ‘» arrival of eighteen wagons on the hen waters of Feather river, This immigr: tion came from, Salt Lake, this sprin; and is composed of families from th Atlantic. States, who arrived: last fh) Fight of the wagons stopped in the uppe vallies, the families having taken farms. ‘Ten wagons, with a large her ef cattle are at the foot of America. valley, recruiting their stock. Those accompanying the first smal train had @ skirmish with the Indian in the valley at the head of the Middl Fork, a few days sinee, About break fast time the Indians entered amon their cattle while they were feeding. and shot six head with arrows: My Fulkerson, of SeventySix, was with. th immigrants; he and a Dr. Dow staye back ina hiding place after the trail moved ; three Indians ca:ne tothe spo after the train had passed ont of sight when they were fired upon by the per sons in ambush, and it was thought tw of the Indians were mortally wounded Phe Indiavs fired at the assailants bu wa ie br j Mr. Liffring, of Palmyra, Mo. anc Mr. R. E. Turner of the ll State, are owners of the stock in the valley at th: foot of the mountains. They inten crossing in a few days. They. repor the Trackee river quite high, anit ; number of trains waiting for it to fall tr Crding depth, intending to pass by thi. route, SAAT PP MR Me RACE: Orrcon.—A letter from a well inform ed gentleman, who is now in Oregon gives the following glowing account o “what he saw” in that territory : “ This is a most magnificent country and will, in the course of a fow yenrs be the garden of the United States here are some of the most enrapturing views to be seen here that ever feasteu the eve of man. “l have already explored alk tho ott seitled portion of it, but “hare been frequently told that Puget's Sound, Umpqua, and Rogue river valleys wil! equal them fur beauty, productivences and climate. “The travelling here is mostly av horseback, but it is beeause we have no wagons in the country, nor can we xer any made here. There is no country in the world where better wagon nde can be had than in this, with its immense open prairies and orchardslike onk groves. Within tho past. three: months I have travelled 1361 miles, nearly 900 of which { rude over on horseback, ovis Napotton.—-A correspondent of the New York Commercial Asati by who attended Louis Napoleon's grand. ball at the Tuilleries, thus describes tho appearance of the usurper : The Prince himself appeared in tolerable good spirits. I stood near him for some time, and obseryed him elosely. He is forty four years of age, and in person of a vulgar mould—stout, and square shouldered, and stiff in his manners, He never seemsat ease, and when standing, ho rocks s!ightly from one foot to the other, like a sailor. He often relieves & seeming uneasiness by passing his forefinger over his moustache. [is hair is thinand brown; his countenance dull and stolid; his eye is half closed and fishy. On the present occaston it was lighted by a sort of peart-oyster radiance, but 1 saw no Stronger demonstration of emotion. He ate and drank with apparent relish, and for the first time he slept at the Tuillcries. ee. The Sonora Herald of the 3d inst F says, the body of a man named Samuel Malcolmson, who, it is supposed, has been murdered for. money, was found yesterday mofning, lying on the roadside near Sullivan’s Creck. Io had one pistol-ball wound in his breast and two in his back. One of his vockets was rifled, being turned inside out. Twenty-five dollars: remained in his other pocket, which, apparently, was not examined by whoever murdered him. He was a native of tho North of Ireland, and had been for twelve years a resident of New York. The Stoekton Republican notices the sudde pearance of a young man denry Westerman --~ oyed ata ferry, a rom Stockton, owned yeand Emory, and dJune, since which heard from Lim. A correspondent’ informs. us, says the Marysville Herald, that Mr. Amos K. Frye was killed by the Indians, on the morning of the 28th of June, on Chico Creek, 25 miles above Bidwell’s Rancho, No particulars ‘are given. An elderly bookseller in Paris, one of the oldest fashioned routine school, on being asked the other day for the “New French Constitution,” replied that “the did not sell periodicals.” dete ae Tuer are now twelve daily. newsp pers published in Cinginnati—-eighe, English and four Gorman. ” * ee eile a ot iY ee ee eee

N VOL. IL—NO. 12 THEJOURN AL PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING BY RUDD & SARGENT. ie" A. SARGENT, EDITOR. SSS IO Ohece on Broad street, opposite the Placer TTotel. TERMS. Foy one your, in advance $7 09 Six months 4 00 Three months 2 00 WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 1852. INCIDENTS OF PASSAGE. No. 11. At Torniquilla, the point of leaving the railroad, the real difficulties of the voy~ agercommence. Here he takes to the boats, under charge of Jamaica negroes, to navigate the shoal and rapid Chagres, to Cruces. Every thing is now confusion. You contract for a bont for a dozen, fo after your baggage, and when you return, find the boat shoving off with another party. Perhaps you get part of your baggage aboard, when rome more tempting offer starts off the boatmen, and you are left behind with the remainder. Thus it occurred with us. The boatmen engaged for five dollars each to take ten of us to Cruces. Getting baggage from the cars was a work of time, but it was passed out into the boat as fost as it was got at. When about half was aboard, another party prevailed on the patron, who had as much idea of honesty as an ape has of courtesy, to start off with them. Pretty soon we got the rest of our baggage into another boat, started in pursuit, and rescued the ‘ fixings.” Up the river boats can only be urged with poles, and that at a speed of about two miles per hour. The water is not more than two feet deep upon an average, and rushes on to the ocean with a speed truly astonishing. So shallow a river and so rapid a current are anomalies only explained by the nature of the banks, which continually crumble into the stream, widdening and filling its channel. At some points on the river Aro miniature maelstroms, in which a boat not skillfully managed is caught, whirled round and down stream. Snags of all kind continually occur, and many a beat is over sect by contact with them. A few months ago the entire mail for the Atlantic States got a washing from such an accident. The river is draped on each side with most beautiful evergreen, far o'erhanging the water, the dwelling place ofinnumerab'e paroquets, monkeys, lizards, &c. It was ten a. M. when we left Torniquilla, and after tedious experience, we arrived at Gorgona at nine in the evening. Now that the road from Gorgona to Panama is mostly closed, the former erases to be the great depot for transportation, and consequently wears a dull aspect. Itis simply a stopping place for the night for boats bound further up. Some passengersattempted to force their way over the Gorgona road, and arrived at last at Panama, in a woful plight. At four next morning, we started for Cruces, six miles farther up. The river was now more rapid, at times running Detween prominent cliffs of rock. It took fiye hours to complete our trip, when at last we reached the old native village, well known as the terminus of the old Luccaneers’ paved road = At ‘Cruces mules were letting for twenty dollars each, and baggage was charged for at the rate of twenty cents per pound—twice as high as two years ago. In an hour more we were travelling a la mula over the most execrable road aver tolerated in a civilized country. The mad frequently bathed our girths, and bespattered us from head to foot as the mules floundered about. In some parts the road runs over granite which js indented by the constant and regular tread of the mules tothe depth of six inches. Occasionally the road descends into narrow gorges, then rises abruptly over acclivities. Loose stones make the footing insecure to all animale save mules, which doubtless, on the principle that fortune: favors fools, seem to have, with ‘all their stupidity, the good luck to be always right side up. Toadd to our comforts, about noon rain began to pour.in torrents, while the thunder yolled: among the hills most sublimely. At dark we were five miles out of Pananaan dnb ig tice ens osetia oot cans uae tessa ccf Ranier eee emanates apneic nic aintaacgi pacha inal tani annem EVA A NEVADA, CALIFORNIA, SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 10, 1852. ma, with jaded animals, a blind road, and weariness unappreciable. ‘The sky was clouded, buta real firmament of fire flies blazed as far as the eye could see. Urging our animals to a last effort, on we dashed, through mire, darkness and uncertainty, till the lights ahead gave tyken that Panama was at hand. At nine o'clock, seated, after a bath, to a comfortable supper at the “Western,” we half forgot the fatigues of the day. The next question was for the baggage, but that was not forthcoming. Some of it dropped in the next day, some did not arrive at a!l, and the owners were compelled to leave it, or lose the steamer to go back for it. The trouble was, it was started through the day before, Corpus Christi day, an occasion when tke na~ tives will not work, but feel bound to exhibit their devotion by getting drunk and gambling. We had taken the precaution to start our baggage ahead of of us, and kept in sight of it till half way toPanama. The drivers then hurried through to enjoy the festival at Panama, while those unwatched left the baggage on the road and made tracks for Cruces. Our baggage came in atten o'clock on “Saint's day,” a piece of good fortune not to be overvalued aftera ride through mud and rain. [ To b@continued.} CaurrorniA Metnopist Press.—It is stated that the Gener1l Conference recently held at Boston cane to the dein San Francisco, devoted to the interests of Methodism, also a Book Depository. The Christian Advocate which has so ably seconded the missionary operation of the M. E, Church in this State the last half year, will be the nucleus of the publication. The Conference at Boston was well attended, and exhibited an array of talent and learning not to be surpassed by any body of equal numbers. Its determination in reference to Califoinia exhibits a comprehensiveness of operations that does it honor, Ovennanpd Roure To CaLirorNia.— The Philadelphia Sun says: An express line overland from St. Joseph’s Missouri, to Sacramento city, has been establish~ed. The first train left on the first of May, taking out the necessary stock for the several stations of the company, and the second is to leave on the 10th of June. The stations of the company are Fort Kearny, Fort Laramie, North Fork of the Platte, South Pass, Salt Lake, and the head of Humboldt. The number of wagons in each train will be ten, and the limitation of passengers forty. Time from St. Joseph to Salt Lake city twenty five days; fare $100. To Sacramento, sixty days; fare $150. termination to establ’-1 a weekly paper . Nationab Roap.—Col. Benton is out in the St. Louis district, Missouri, for Congress. Ina speech of April Ist, he expressed a wish to advocate in Congress the great national road from St. Louis to San Francisco, and says : — “Extensive enquiries among the motntain men has satisfied me that this common road could be opened on nearly straight line between St. Louis and San Francisco, crossing the Rocky mountains near the head of the Arkansas or the Del Norte, running all the way between or near the parallels of 38 and 39 degrees—-shortening the distance seveveral hundred miles— finding ground for cultivation, with wood, water and grass —passing the mountains near four de~ grees south of the South Pass, and travable earlier in the spring and later in the fall, and in sleighs all the winter. The mountain men know this route, and some three or four hundred laborers, (axe and mattock men) directed by practical country road makers, guided by mountain men who are not “too high learnt” to follow Buffalo trails, could do the work ina summer; and do itata . fraction of the cost which is now lavished upon ocean steamers, and the African squadron for the protection of the coast of Guinea. “The Indian title could be extinguished at the same time—donations to s¢ettlers granted—forts and stations estab~ lished, and the common road and the wires be ready for use between the spring budding and the fall dropping of next summer's leaves. As £oon as opened, it should be established as a post road by law, and the mails carried upon it both in coaches and upon horseback—the latter for slips and letters— the coaches to make 100 milesa day, and the horses 200, so as to clear the distance between St. Louis and San Francisco in twenty days, and in ten days respectively. The enterprising O'Reily now Offers to carry a letter mail on horseback in ten days; it would be done in eight when the straight road is opened. “The mail stage now goes with regulality and dispatch between Indepenpendence and Santa Fe; and has failed but once, and that only for one day, in the two years that it has been established. The telegrapic wires could be put up at the same time; so that. for a fraction of what we are now squandering upon the ocean steamers, we could have a national road through our own territories from the Mississippi to the Pacific, and the populations of the two sides of the continent put in communisation—in ten days by letters, in twenty days by persons, and momentarily by telegraphic dispatches. What a shame that such a work cannot be accomplished! that ovr citizens should be driven in a circuitous voyage through foreign dominions, at enormous cost, or left to fight their way through deserts and savages, exposed co robbery, murder and starvation, in a three or four months’ journey, instead of a transit of as many weeks without danger or hardship, and at small expense. Never was a great nultional measure so neglected by any government.” The schism in the Democratic ranks in the St. Louis district is being widdened and deepened by the whole powerful influenco of the eld veteran. If Queen Isanetra of Spain has given to. the weapons with which he fights are the image of Our Lady of Antocha an all as powerful as the following, the imperial crown of fine gold set with dia-. embarrassment which he will cause to monds and Brazilian topages, the whole worth $750,000; to the image of the Savior, at the same shrine, a similar crown, thcugh of course. smaller in size; and two boquets, of the size of a man’s hand, of pure diamonds. For these things, the Queen paid the Jeweler, Lovia, the enormous sum of $1,500,000. The statues have been adorned with them and placed on an altar where the public can see them; four soldiers con» stantly keep guard before the shrine. Ir is estimated that the receipts of Australian gold into England during the months of February and March amounted to four millions of pounds sterling— nearly twenty millions of dollars. That is a far greater amount than has ever) been exported from California in the . same length of time. Temperaxce.—The Sons of Temperance seem to be organising all over the State. At San Francisco there are two “Divisions,” one in Sacramento, another in Marysville, one at Grass Valley, one in Napa, &c. They united/in the pub. lic celebrations of Independence whereever they were organised. Are there not enough members to organise a Division here ? A Woman's Rights Convention was to have been held at Westchester, Chester county, Pennsylvania, on the 2d and 3d days of June. The official call for it was signed by Lucretia Mott, Sallie P. Lewis, and sundry other fair revolution ists, whose names are now somewhat famous among tsms. the ‘ammaculate” will not be slight: “T eschew this new doctrine of interfering in the affairs of Europe, mystified asit is in the cautious phrase, where caution itself betrays the danger of the idea by veiling its nakedness in a confusion of words—‘intervene to prevent intervention.’ I stand upon the ancient ways antiquais vias, of our fathers; peace and friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; good wishes to all people struggling for freedom ; acknowledgement of their independence, if successful, without inquiry into the right or wrong of the revolt; asylum to ithe vanquished, from the moment he touched the soil, or trod the deck of an American vessel; and with the rights of person and property, from the instant of his arrival among us; with all political rights in five years, if he chooses, election to the Presidency excepted. ‘This \js our ancient policy, and I adhere to it. And it surely is fag est . worth thanks, . and no doubt has them from the political unfortunate of all nations. It gives them a ceuntry in which they can make i their home, after having lost their own. It gives them a spot on which they can (stop, and turn, and stand. It is something to have such a refuge, and at ao time when continental Europe is verging to the condition of the Roman world in the last days of the Republic, and under the Empire, when the vanquished fell upon his sword, and died ; or receivthe order todie, and did it; because there was nota spot on the earth on on which he could be sheltered from the pursuit of the conqueror or the master.” Famures 1N BaLTIMORE.—Messrs. Johnson & Travers, shipping and com~ mission merchants, and J, R. Richards, dry goods, jobber, of Baltimore, have failed. They are understood to be bad failures. QUARTZ MINING REGULATIONS OF KENTUCKY ‘VALLEY DISTRICT. Ata meeting of the quartz miners of Sing Sing prison in New York. the above district; held at the Washington Hotel, Kentucky Flat, on the 13th of June, 1852, E. W. Roberts President, and L. Lowenthal Secretary, the following Regulations of “November 2d, 1851, were amended and adopted as follows: 1st. This district shall extend from the Newtown Crossing on Deer Creek, north to the Yuba river, thence west to Bridgeport, thence south to the Anthony House, thence back to the Newtown crossing. 2d. divers man shall have a right to hold one claim of one hundred and fifty (150) feet, with all the depth, angles, variations and cross-leads, on every suparate lead of quartz, by location, and toas many more as he may purchase. 3d. The discoverer of a lead shall be entitled to hold two claims by location. 4th. Where two or more claims adjoining are located by a company, a notice on any prominent object near the worked part of the lead, stating the number of claims and description of boundaries, shall be a sufficient mark, without stakes on every separate claim. 5th. The locator or purchaser of a

claim or claims, shall be allowed to hold the same until machinery can be procured, provided said claim or claims be recorded in this district within one month from the time of location or purchase, and also anamount of labor equal to twenty ($20) dollars be performed thereon within the same time. 6th. Where two or more claims adjoining are held by a company, one mem-~ ber of the same, working on any part of said claims to the amount stated in Rule No. 5, shall be sufficient to represent the whole company. 7th. Ifone man holding a single claim, after recording the same, is not able to work it as above, he shall not be deprived of his title. 8th. Any man or company of men, working his or their claims every day, shall not be compelled to have the same recorded, 9th. There shall be a Recorder elected, to keep the records of all locations, sales and transfers of claims, and said records to lie open to the insnection of every miner. 10th. The Recorder shall be entitled toa fee of fifty cents for recording the location, sale, or transfer of each claim, when two or more are recorded together, and to one dollar for every single record. Resolved, That these proceedings be published in the Nevada Journal. We, the undersigned, do hereby adopt the foregoing Rules and Regulations for the future government of all quartz mining operations in this district, and have duly elected Dr. L. Lowenthal . Recorder thereof for the term of twelve mouths from 3d November, 1851. ; E. W. ROBERTS, Pres t. L. Lowentnat, Sec’y. {Signed by the quartz miners of Kentucky Valley.] INTERFSTING.—A person writing from San Francisco to the Newport News, gives the following incident as having occurred in that city : “Two very common looking persons entered the hotel this morning, just from the mines~a man and his wife. The male individual looked, for the world, like a day laborer, and the female bore a clese resemblance to an Trish scullion. She wore coarse, vulgar brogans, and to her girdle was wttached a gold watch and chain valued at least at two hundred dollars. The husband left the hotel for half an hour, and returned with a receipt for one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars, the value of the dust which he had just consigned for transportation to New York. This sum has been gained by digging; the husband dug, while the wife washed, assisted by her little son, aged about ten years.’ Morper.—A man by the name of George W. Ford, from Missouri, was murdered about five miles back of Yuba City on Sunday morning, by Jno. Clark, from Canada. ‘They had been partners for two years, and were cutting hay.— The deceased signified his intention of riding a grey mule, belonging to thom, into Marysyitle on Sunday, an d Clark objested to it. In the course of the discussion which ensued, Clark called Ferd aliar. Ford tock hold Clark and threw him down, but without doing him any injury. Clarkasked Ford to let him up, and Ford said he would if Clark would behave himself. When released, Clark said he would have revenge, and started towards the tent, some fifteen or twenty yards distant. Ford followed him, to light his pipe. Clark stepped in, in advance of him, picked up a caseknife, wheeled around and struck at him, cutting him in the pit of the stomach, below the breast bone. Ford started to run, and Clark followed him, ins flicting two more blows with the knife, under the left arm. Either of the blows must have proved mortal. Four or five persons were present, one of whom attempted to interfere, when Clark struck at him, but missed him. One of. the persons came to Marysville, the others remained; promising to take care of Clark until kis roturn, bat they allowed him to escape. He has not yet been captured. Marysville Herald.Prison Drsciriine.—Yoking is a! Beckwith [umicranr Rovutr.—A ‘ec WHOLE NO. 116. new mode of torture adopted at the We have no sympathy with the spurious philanthropy, that would make our jails as luxurious and pleasant as palaces, but these detestable instruments of torture devised by cruelty, can be productive of no good to the criminal, and no improvement of prison discipline :— The yoke is of iron, five or six feet long with a staple in the middle to encircle the neck, and one at each end to enclose the wrists. It weighs from thirty to sixty pounds, and is 80 contrived that the person can neither stand erect nor sit in any position in which he will not suffer excessive pain. Dr. Fosgate says that “under the weight of it the convict cannot retain the erect posture for even afew minutes consecutively, but is forced to bend forward in his continual writhing, which brings the entire weight of the bar upon the lower cervical vertebra. The arms are generally stretched to their full length, and from steady tension of the nerves are benumbed, while the hands turn purple, and at times become much swollen.” And instances of its effect in individual cases are also given. After his wife!— Domestic Treachery._.-A gentleman passed through here the other day, in search of his wile and her paramour, who had started across the plains a few days in advance. It appears that the parties are citizens of St. Louis, and during the husband’s protracted absence in Califors nia, a friend had succeeded—by intercepting letters and forging others——in inducing the wife to believe that he never intended to return. A thousand dollars, which he had sent to his wife, had also been intercepted and a letter Irom him forged, informing her of his desertion and marriage in California. While under the frenzied sense of this conviction, the most hellish arts were applied, and she was induced in a 1ash moment to throw herself into the arms of the seducer, pnd accompany him to California. The feelings of the unhappy husband, on his return to his desolate home+~but a few weeks after the wife-—for whom he had successfully toiled for many years--had departed forever with another,and that other his faithful friend,may,perhaps, be imagined, but cannot be described! Weare glad to learn that the trail of the fugitives have been discovered, and we trust this heartless destroyer of human happiness may receive condign punishment--such as our laws do not inflict.— Savannah, (Mo.) Sentinal, May 1. Orecon Coan.—The P, M. $. Ship Company dispatched to Oregon, some months since, Mr, French, for the purpose of examining the coal region recently discovered in that territory.-That gentleman, with the assistance of others, has not only made a therough exploration of the mines, but just returned with about eight tons of the coal brought down on the last trip of the steamer Fremont. The Antelope, on her downward trip yesterday, had a portion of this coal on board, intending to give it a thorough trial, and judging from the speed with which she left the dock,the experiment will prove perfectly successful. We were shown by Mr. Krank Johnson, agent of the Antelope, a specimen of the coal, which resembles Lehigh in appearance,although far lighter and more bituminous.—Unicn, Srirr Srory.—1in i’ckin, China, a newspaper of extraordinary size is published weekly ow silk. It issaid to have been started more than a thousand yeare ago—somewhat earlier than the one uadex the patronage of the “good Queen Sess.” effect that in 1727 a public officer caused some false intelligence to be inserted in this newspaper, for which he was put to deuth, Several nnmbera b. paper are preserved in the Boys’ rary at Paris. They are ten and a quarter yards jong. You often hear of a man “being in advance of his age,” out you never hear of a woman being in the samo predicament. Tue Cosomnes Tracepy.-—A lengthy report of ‘the committee appointed by the residents of Big Bar to examine into the circumstances of the hanging of the Frenchman, Raymond, for shooting a Chinaman, appears in the Sacramento Union of Saturday. The whole proveeding is minutely detsiled, and the con. clusion is that the guilty man deserved his fate. His brother who arrived the day after the execution, js stated te have been satisfied with the trial, a fair’ and impartial, An ahecdote is related to the b —»— ter has been received by the Mary. ville Herald, giving an secount of ‘» arrival of eighteen wagons on the hen waters of Feather river, This immigr: tion came from, Salt Lake, this sprin; and is composed of families from th Atlantic. States, who arrived: last fh) Fight of the wagons stopped in the uppe vallies, the families having taken farms. ‘Ten wagons, with a large her ef cattle are at the foot of America. valley, recruiting their stock. Those accompanying the first smal train had @ skirmish with the Indian in the valley at the head of the Middl Fork, a few days sinee, About break fast time the Indians entered amon their cattle while they were feeding. and shot six head with arrows: My Fulkerson, of SeventySix, was with. th immigrants; he and a Dr. Dow staye back ina hiding place after the trail moved ; three Indians ca:ne tothe spo after the train had passed ont of sight when they were fired upon by the per sons in ambush, and it was thought tw of the Indians were mortally wounded Phe Indiavs fired at the assailants bu wa ie br j Mr. Liffring, of Palmyra, Mo. anc Mr. R. E. Turner of the ll State, are owners of the stock in the valley at th: foot of the mountains. They inten crossing in a few days. They. repor the Trackee river quite high, anit ; number of trains waiting for it to fall tr Crding depth, intending to pass by thi. route, SAAT PP MR Me RACE: Orrcon.—A letter from a well inform ed gentleman, who is now in Oregon gives the following glowing account o “what he saw” in that territory : “ This is a most magnificent country and will, in the course of a fow yenrs be the garden of the United States here are some of the most enrapturing views to be seen here that ever feasteu the eve of man. “l have already explored alk tho ott seitled portion of it, but “hare been frequently told that Puget's Sound, Umpqua, and Rogue river valleys wil! equal them fur beauty, productivences and climate. “The travelling here is mostly av horseback, but it is beeause we have no wagons in the country, nor can we xer any made here. There is no country in the world where better wagon nde can be had than in this, with its immense open prairies and orchardslike onk groves. Within tho past. three: months I have travelled 1361 miles, nearly 900 of which { rude over on horseback, ovis Napotton.—-A correspondent of the New York Commercial Asati by who attended Louis Napoleon's grand. ball at the Tuilleries, thus describes tho appearance of the usurper : The Prince himself appeared in tolerable good spirits. I stood near him for some time, and obseryed him elosely. He is forty four years of age, and in person of a vulgar mould—stout, and square shouldered, and stiff in his manners, He never seemsat ease, and when standing, ho rocks s!ightly from one foot to the other, like a sailor. He often relieves & seeming uneasiness by passing his forefinger over his moustache. [is hair is thinand brown; his countenance dull and stolid; his eye is half closed and fishy. On the present occaston it was lighted by a sort of peart-oyster radiance, but 1 saw no Stronger demonstration of emotion. He ate and drank with apparent relish, and for the first time he slept at the Tuillcries. ee. The Sonora Herald of the 3d inst F says, the body of a man named Samuel Malcolmson, who, it is supposed, has been murdered for. money, was found yesterday mofning, lying on the roadside near Sullivan’s Creck. Io had one pistol-ball wound in his breast and two in his back. One of his vockets was rifled, being turned inside out. Twenty-five dollars: remained in his other pocket, which, apparently, was not examined by whoever murdered him. He was a native of tho North of Ireland, and had been for twelve years a resident of New York. The Stoekton Republican notices the sudde pearance of a young man denry Westerman --~ oyed ata ferry, a rom Stockton, owned yeand Emory, and dJune, since which heard from Lim. A correspondent’ informs. us, says the Marysville Herald, that Mr. Amos K. Frye was killed by the Indians, on the morning of the 28th of June, on Chico Creek, 25 miles above Bidwell’s Rancho, No particulars ‘are given. An elderly bookseller in Paris, one of the oldest fashioned routine school, on being asked the other day for the “New French Constitution,” replied that “the did not sell periodicals.” dete ae Tuer are now twelve daily. newsp pers published in Cinginnati—-eighe, English and four Gorman. ” * ee eile a ot iY ee ee eee