March 4, 1853 (4 pages)

Pee: XQ crvicacees jand bring it to bear by the weight of a diSenn ae een ee er ay The value of that threat depends upon tion. Whence . Francisco derive its wealth and importance! A. A. SARGENT EDITOR. , {another consid FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 4. . Solely froin the interior counties. Uponour pes itis dependent for its very existence. A Convention--Division. The correspondence of the Union from Benicia, published on the first page, will be. i AFA: found interestine . tion of profits from its inland trade. If that The question of a Conboos F ‘ : ;, . trade was cease to-merrow, and son aryention is being very generally discussed in . fade was to in ud some : ; r by a convulsion of natur as create the State, and most of the press have ex. bya con a eure. WAS created pressed opinions upon it. The views in opposition to this project we declared in September, 1851, and frequently since, we have scen no reason to change upon reading the . it = voluminous arguments in the Legislature tradition, years hence, would the visitor know and in the press, in favor of a Convention, . ithad existed. The vast amount of goods =a . . . . We have based our opposition principally . purchased for use in the mines for which gold upon the point that the main object of this . dust is exchanged, has been the means of enConvention is to secure a division of the viching San Francisco merchants, building State. Weobsorve by the admissions of Mr. . it fine blocks of buildings, and giving direc. Crabb, the mover of the subject in the Senate, that this is a principal object to accom. harbor. , plish. The question of an expense to the Francisco has no inherent cause save as a State in procuring necessary amendments to depot for she whole mining counties. From the Constitution is a light one, and should . * Small town the discovery of the mines, and not be so strenuously urged as to prevent the great interests that grew up in the midst important reforms in that instrument. But . of them, raised San Francisco at once to rias these amendments can be secured consti-. va cities well located on the Atlantic side. tutionally without a Convention, and there-. The trate of San Franciseo with the South fore in urging a Convention as a sine qua compared with the North is nothing, and . . . . } y } wtoe ‘Very AY non, the other object must be prominently in with the North it extends every day. } view, it is well for the advocates and op-. The flerald may deem the concentration posers of the Convention to take their posi-. of Property at San Francisco makes it the tions at once as for or against a division of . MOT Prominent field for the tax gatherer,— the State; and the favorers of the Conven. But the interests of mining counties are ev? . 3 . tion should no longer urge as‘its object the . 'Y day consolidating, Permanent cities are ob ss = property, but that property is the accumula. more convenient of access to the mines, San . Francisco would fall as rapidly as it has . rigen, struck by a paralysis so sudden and . fatal, that only by its mouldering ruins, or } . . docs San . It may talk loftily of the deference due to its . tion to the wings of ocean commerce to its . The proud preeminence of San . Tie Prank Roap.—On Monday night . Rich Discoveries of Gold, jaletter was received at Grass Valley, . ifrom Mr. Hardenburg of Sacramento, jin behaif of the citizens of that city.’ account a short time since-being the stating that $215,000 had been raisedin, Cayote lead that has been worked for Sacramento for u plank road to Nevada, over two years, $120 per pan was taken vie Auburn. . out on Tuesday last. These claims are Messrs. Woodruff and Eaton were on) paying admirably. jhand from Marysville, and stated the Wert Hint.—This hill is part of the lg £ 690? HOD head hee aisedi P ‘ 5 . sum of $202,000 had been raisedin thut same Cayote range, and bas thus far . icity for a plank road. l been the western boundary . . i From Auburn Messrs. Gwynn, Holt and Munsell, were present, and tenderof paying } It yielded $18 per pan the past . week, inthe claims of Dawley & ConGirt. led $150,000 as the subscription of Au. ree . burn and vicinity to the Sacramento. ~ Sprixe Buanen.—At this place, situ. plank roud, ‘ated near here on Little Deer Creek, Certain citizens of Grass \ alley im-. they took out the past week $50 per pan. jmediately subscribed $252,000 to the . . Marysville road, to be rendered in lumiber, one half cash to be repaid. ‘This . ae Pp en ae iday hy sluicing. proposition was aecepted. ; This looks well for the Marysville . jroad, which will be built beyond a : 3 ens , ne : loubt if M aT rf : fort Ar Surrey Frat.—In the claims of . ie Marysville continues i OFte:l ae, i : bie : re tie Sariadiaideabiads Warren & Co., $60 per pan were taken . jand interest. She has not come up to, : ; led t. by $48,000. Most of tl . out the past week. DPT DOS an 4 fe : sgh oa > nf . Sourn Yupa.—-This side of Hunt's . ORS en eee eee rine SBM: eee Ranch, at the Middle Crossing of the . oad, the lumber from this. Then if) . ; ‘ ie wands $9 » . , South Yuba, rich diggings bave been rmore mills g¢ york, as they. ,. : ‘ ae mn a ee i ipubesti . 1 “2 discovered on the top of the ridge, and . nust, exclusiy sis. lumber, . go must, exclusively upon this lum . $80 per pan taken ont. vi ry > oxpenses, any . 3 f ; . with $he qe phe ay bis, Spe »8DY) Minpir Yura.--Near Stafford s Ranch . remuneration for which cannot be exthe Middle Yuba, rich cayote dig. . jon ected j due 19s tl ren neirt . : <i pected in much less than o year, their gings have been found. They run ina direct north course, and are deemed by . . : e owners must be bankrupt, or heavily in j intelligent gentlemen to be a continuaRep DPoc.—In Perkins’ cayote digwings, three men took out $2,100 ina} Three years diggings . of presumed equal richness are situated . on the same hill. } a debt. Therefore, to help pay their way, and enable to furnish the immense aEricsson's Armospurrntc Exo int.— O.p Cayore Hin. -—lrom the claims! The immediate and complete success of of Miller & Co., of which we gave an. the new motive power discovered by Capt. Ericsson, seems to have charmed the entire press. No cavilling doubts are expressed, no faint praise, but it is unanimously conceded thata great principle in nature and science has been applied to the use of mankind. All unite in admiration and cordial praise. The . unsafe medium of steam will 8002 be disarded, and the equally powerful, cheaper and more harmless propulsive agency of caloric, take its place. The gratitude of the world will be laid at the feet of the man who for twenty years has patiently labored at his great idea, and at last lived to see the complete swevess of his magnificent project. The nomenclature that has obtained in reference to wheel vessels, as “steam ~ will now be at fault. We shall ers,” ‘soon read of calortcers or winders, or some such progressive term. Heo» We are indebted to Hon. W M. Gwin for valuable public documents. We are indebied to Messre. Lyons, Bostwick, €renshaw and Johnson, fur Legislative favors. Joaquin. —This desperado was still at large at last accouats, and committing murders and robberies, mostly upon Chinese. Two of his gang have been taken and hung since our last, and the reform of the judiciary, biennial legislative . 8"WiNs Up, and as soon as some tenure shall sessions, &c. The disingenuineness of the Convention advocates is most apparent in urging their purpose to reform the Constitube fixed in the land, for farms and building lots, the yield of taxes of these counties will . vastly increase, But it is madness without method for San mount of material, the proposition was made to Marysville. The lumber is the . heaviest item, but the contractors must tion of the famous cayote lead now worked in this city. Rusu Creex.—Before this season, for lack of water, the head of Rush Creek tion of the State, when their prime object is. to separate themselves from the State whose . organic law their last act will be to remodel. Why should Mr. Crabb, of San Joaquin, . feel such a deep interest in tha Constitution . : sPaght : of that part of the State which his avowed . vidi hon hii beng Ss edteea division. A didesign is to separate his section from, to or-. V0 OF the State giving San ell Ia ganize itinto aterritory? All his exposithe South, would stimulate the natural feel. ing which the citizens of every nation and Francisco to talk of separating itself from its markets by a State line. Its interests are too much dependent on the North. We smile at its threats, when all its own intortions of the irregularities of our organic law, . " eel and the necessity of radical change, must be . tte possess, that of desiring the possession viewed with susvicion, for the means he . £4 large emporium within their own limits. wishes to set in action to etiect these changes Seucelito or Benicia or some other point he designs shall place his section beyond the . would be fixed upon as the great city of the : 'Nort The . . we) r tha State reache! them. Ifthe Legislature shall deem . North. The northern POtAlD ot Ie State the recommendations of Goy. Bigler to be) would feel a pride mn building up its i bi of importance to the State, they can pass bis . $reat city, and withdraw its trade from the sec that sufficient allowance is made for . h grading, and other labor, out of the available funds. Tt is stated that parties will furnish $500,000 in lumber on the same terms as been but little prospected. This . . year miners average there $15 per day 'to the hand, and the diggings about . there are extensive, opening a wide! : : i field for profitable labor. . tothe Sacramento road. That project) Gusroxen Corr An.—The ridge be-. certainly drags heavily. Public feeling tween the middle and south forks of the . is in favor of it, but we cannot build so Yub much of it ourselves. Our their powers on one road. a, at Cherokee Corral is paying be. yond expectation, and miners are doing . citizens must now concentrate admirably. . , : it wilt be We receive accounts of rich discove. oie aa to get both roads finished this ries of gold every week, of the charac. ter of theabove. No better evidence is needed that gold is far from exhausted. . season, ind by attempting so to do,a great risk is encountered of having both and other amendments, and submit them to} the people; and the intelligent voice of the people will decide in favor or againstthe various amendments with more certainty and satisfaction than can be arrived at where a new Constitution, perhaps full of crudities, is submitted to be adopted or rejected in whole. Much abuse is heaped upon the original . framers of the Constitution by the advocates . of the convention. But have we purer or more enlightened men to frame anether Constitution? Ifthe present Legislature is to he taken as an example of what the conven. tion will be, we opine any advantages that will be reaped from its session will be accidental. Most searching and accurate portraits of the present Legislature have been drawn by the advocates of this convention in attempts to describe and denounce the framers of the Constitution. Until society is more settled, and the general character of . our legislators improved, we helicve no convention that can be thrown together by the heaving elements of political and sectional . intriguo, will be better than the original convention, that numbered among its members, . Gwin, Semple, Gilbert, Larkin, Sherwood, . Snyder, Sutter, Vallejo, Norton, Ellis, &c. But we observe a new feature is intro. duced into the discussion. The S. 2’ Herald. has started the idea that because San Francisco pays heavier taxes than any several of . the mining counties her representation should be based upon that and not upon her popu lation, and complains that the mining counties are oyer-represented. Accordingly, it says— “If the countics of the interior will hold this preponderance and will persist in this op. pression, by means of a mere brute force majority, based upon an unjust apportionment rival city of another State. But the threat of the Zferaid as an alternative to the introduction of a property quali. fication, is idle from another consideration. . At the last convention held in the South in favor of a division, San Francisco was unanimously rejected from their portion of the State, and placed north of the proposed division line. ‘The South won't have the city of shopkeepers, They reject San Francisco. It is exceedingly simple for San Francisco papers to hold threats of separation over the North to enforce concessions, when those who favor division will not take that city off with their portion. The prize the North will dose the South thinks no gain. Nor would it be. They want no such influences to neutralize the action of their sparsely populated counties. ‘The only resource San Francisco has South won't have it—it won't have the North —so chacun a son gout, C3 The San Francisco L/erald gives an interesting account of the pregress of vast quartz companies formed in England to inine upon humbug grants in Mariposa Co. The crudest statements appear in the prospectuses, as that the Merced is navigable, &e. Here is the project ofthe “ Albion Gold Mining Company” :— This Company proposes to take possession (under a conveyance in fee) of 1,000 acres of land upon the freehold estate of Alfred Clapp, Esq., in the county of Mariposa, California; and to work, on the cost book system, the gold mines thereon. Situate in the richest part of that famous region, the Burns’ Creek range of gold deposits stands unrivalled in the land of unlimited riches.— Through the centre of this estate, consisting of upwards of 2,000 acres, from southeast to northwest, a ridge of hills, the great basis of which is the gold-bearing quartz rock, diswhich they themselves fix, the sooner we get . rid of their thraldom the better ;—uand if this . can be done by no other means than by a di. vision of the State, why then Iet us have a. division.’’ { San Francisco is better represented in the . Legislature in proportion to its population than any other large county save Tuolumne, . which is too largely represented. In_ pros . portion to its population it has nearly double the representation of Bl Dorado, Calaveras, Nevada and Yuba. Ina new and just apportionment, these interior counties must . have their representation increased, and will . insist upon it. Population is the only acknowledged basis of representation, thank God, in a republican State. The poorest . man that walks in honesty in the community . is of as much political weight in the eye of law, as the lordliest capitalist. If an issue is sprung whereby men shall be discriminated against in favor of money, the interior will be ready to meet it, even though the result adverse to San Francisco, should cause that. city to urge division. Such attempts to sap . the fundamental principles of republicanism . and freedom, and introduce characteristics of . English political and social organization, where political weight means weight of dollars and birth, will be met on the threshold with scorn. It is fully demonstrated by the brilliant history ot this Republic, that power is safely lodged in the hands of the masses— . that no property qualification is necessary to responsible action—that men, and not property, are the bulwarks of justice and free. dom. We should deem this course of ra mark superfluous did not an influential and, < Tee El Tsien al ~ BYge a different view, . . . i closes to the observer (at intervals) veins of rich ore cropping out at the hill sides in manifest splendor. From the bed and banks of the clear stream called Burns’ Creek, which (IN SUMMER UNFAILING AND IN WinTER UNFROZEN) flows through the estate at the base of these hills, it isknown by miners of that locality that nearly a millien and a . half sterling of fine gold has been taken in the last two years. After giving certificates of assay, &c., the prospectus goes on to say :— At this rate of yield one ton of the quartz rock would produce gold value £3,400 and upwards ; but assuming that instead of this result (viz: £1 5s. 33d. per Ib.) an average . of only Is. per pound troy was produced, a3 30 tons per day can be readily separated, . crushed, and washed at these mines, and the yield of gold would be at that rate £136 per ton, which multiplied by 80 gives £4,080 as the result of each day’s working, being £24,480 per week of six days, above £100,000 per calender month would be the gross produce. The officers of these companies are mar quises, baronets, solicitors, bankers, &c.— There are no freeholds in Mariposa Co., save . that of Col. Fremont, which has yet to stand the test of the U. S. Supreme Court, and this pretended claim of Alfred Clapp is not . embraced in that. Itis a piece of bare-faced imposition, to relieve John Bull of some of his surplus cash, Henny Jounson, of Portland, Me., fell overboard in San Francisco harbor on Saturday last, and was picked up senseless.— His spine was badly hurt, but it was thought he would recoyer. CS> The weather is clear and beautiful, and soft as May, in an incomplete state when the next rainy season setsin. ‘lhe extent of the subscription now furnished us must show the amount of zealand ability at the other end is inadequate to the emergency. We therefore call upoa our citizens to elect one route, and all to invest as the majority may decide. This is buta common-sense deduction from the present state of affairs. All the arguments . ever urged for a plank road now demand the completion of onc. Lvidently but! one can be completed. On that we can rely for protection against the bad roads and a cessation of business. The clauses in the state eonstitution making individuals liable for the debts of a corporation have retarded the Sac. is to set up a State in its own county. The . T@mento subscription, especially at the ¢/e gives a statement of a new claim in. Bay. Those clauses are one of the most objectionable features in the present! constitution, and were neyer conceived ina brain familiar with the affairs of a great commercial state. We trust these clauses will be abrogated by the pro-, posed amendments. Accipent.— We are informed by Dr. Knox that a man named Pat Jennings . had his shoulder mashed, and narrowly . escaped with his life, on Saturday last, in Miller's diggings, ou old Cayoto Hill. by the ground caving in, carrying with . it some large boulders, one of which struck himon the shoulder. After hay. ing his injuries examined and dressed, it was ascertained he was not permanently injured. Such aceidonts happen i frequently, and miners should exercise more care. In the same claims, about a week before a Mr. Kilpatrick had his leg and foot badly jammed by a boulder. Frencn Cornau.—We are informed by Dr. Reilley, that a man named Robert Barker was shot and mor. tally wounded by a Mr. De Lamar, proprietor of the F:1 Dorado saloon, at French . SHOOTING aT Corral, on Sunday night, about 10 o’. clock. Some dispute had risen between . them, which proceeded to blows, and De Lamar struck Barker on the head with a pistol. Barker pushed him back, . . when De Lamar fired at him, the ball . penetrating the pit of the stomach.— Upon medical examination the ball was found to have passed backward and . downward, and lodged in the body. Barker was bar keeper at the saloon—~is, . we believe, from New York, and is about (25 years old. It ig thought he cannot ‘survive the wound. De Lamar made. his escape. . For Avsrratia!—We would call atten. tion in another column, to the advertisement )of the well-known steamship New Orleans, . and to those who are desirous of embarking /on such a voyage. No better Opportunity could offer than the present, as the N. O. has been entirely refitted, as we are assured by . our correspondent, has been provisioned on ® inost liberal scale, and every attention will be paid to the comfort and convenience of . her passengers, of whom she takes but ‘hmited number _reason for this is, there is less prospect: . ! all the ranches on Jackson, Sutter and . . line of their duties. , than a year ago, for 500 head of cattle. . of the commissioners thus far seems to . surer its confirmation, Old miners believe there are undiscoy. ered deposits of gold as rich as ever . found, enough to last twenty years, in . this immediate neighborhood. Nevada . county now supplies the most impoitant item in the shipment of gold, and we re. joice at these evidences that her golden . treasures are not nearly exhausted.-. . persevering miners are at work with far) more general success than heretofore. Not only are rich and sudden strikes . made, but there is no complaint of want of work or success by the crowd. One ing and more work. . » iad t Lanp Craim.—The Calaveras Chroni. that county by Don Andreas Pico to eleven square leawues of land. This grant ; 3 : J . . includes all the rich agricultural bot. toms of the Mokelumne and Consumnes rivers, and Dry Creek, together with fone yalley and Buena Vista Ranch, and . Dry Crecks. It also includes the mineral region in Calaveras from Big Bur to Dry Creek, with the villages of Butte . city, Jackson, Sutter Creek, Amadore, Rancheria and Drytown. This grant, of which no one ever dreamed betore, was bought by Pico of a Spaniard less . Pico has claims before the commissioners excecding in extent the Stato of . Massachusetts. Ile was the Democratic candidate for elector last fall. If all his claims ate confirmed, and he can take possession of them, he will be the richest man in the world. The course indicate that every scrap of a title will Thus far no objection toa confirmation has been . allowed to have weight. The greater mystery in which a claim is wrapt, the . Weare heartily sick of this wholesale and continual severence of the best lands ot the State from the public domain. Its influence . must be to create collision and blood. shed, and retard the growth of the State. . Mineral lands as well as agricultural, . be available to the possessors. are thrown to the dogs by the commis. ied sioners, with hardly an appearance of . deliberation. . Arrray at Los AnGetos.—Some rowdies surrounded the house of Hon. A. . Stearns, at Los Angelos, on the evening . of the 22d of February, where a Ball was in progress,and after firing a cannon . and making other offensive demonstra. tions fired a pistol through a window, . wounding Judge M. Norton in the arm. . He, and another gentleman returned the fire from the house. The crowd pre. sently dispersed, leaving one of their men dead, and two others mortally wounded, BER. Large quantities of salmon, says a. the Union, are taken from the riyer at . &eSacramento . the last steamer from Europe. rest hotly pursued, but fresh and fleet . horses, that they seize wenever needed, fenable them to defy their pursuers. A. . report was published that Joaquin and his fellow cut-throats was penned in the . chapparel; but this has been coatradicted. He cannot long be at large. for the whole community is in arms against him. Cau. ron Lrerstative ATTENT! {trust the Legislature will not adjourn before attending to several pressing wants of the mijning counties. These may be briefly stated }as follows: Ist, Some law giving protestion to building lots, so that individuals may have hoinesteads, stores, &e¢., without risk of the destruction ot their property by undermining or otherwise, and that in case of fire the sufferers may hold their lots against those who may wish to dig . them away. 2d. A law defining real estate i the mining counties, so thatin execution processes advertisemont of sale may be given in county papera. As the construction now is, shetifis do not like to take the responsibility of assuming there is any real estate in the mines, and to advertise sheriff sales of “real estate,” as the law re. . Over every square mile of the county yuires, and thus valuable property is sacrificed. The interests of all parties are damaged by the present struature of the laws upon this spb; ject, and an interpretation never designed by the Legislature has obtained. A declaratory statute is all that is needed, and that greatly needed. 3d. It is a source of embarrassment in the mining towns that Juscices’ Courts have no power of service by publication, while no ne tion can be brought in the District Court for less than a certainsum. Individuals leays these towns owing debts of from $10 to $200, and perhaps property thas can be attached. 3ut as the debtors have left, no nection can be. had, and the amount is too sina}! for the District Court to take cognizance oj, Service by publication by Justices would not alter the principle on which such courts are based, while it would give greater efficiency in the proper Encrisn Butrer.—There were 1088 firkins of butter brought to Boston by Ft ia generally of the mosé delicious sort. At the same time there are tons of butter held from the market in New Hampshire in order to obtain high pricos.-— Butter, says the Bee, ean be brought from the most distant countries in England, and sold at a lower prico than what is demanded for that made. in thie vicinity. On tHe Fence.—Ravennn, the handsome county seat of Portage county, Ohio, is situated on the dividing ridge between the Cuyahoga and Mahoning rivers. it possesses one feature which belongs to no other towa or city in the Union. The rain which falls upon the north side of its court house roof finds ite way to Lake Erie, and that which fails on the south side runs to the Gulf of Mexico. es) Oo We are indebted to Adams § Co. for the delivery of papers and lettcrs the past week. frsWe are under continued obligations te Weils, Fargo & Co. for prompt rendering of express favars. See ND Coleman & Burton, NE now receiving at their store on Mair 4M. street, opposite Phelps’ Hotel, all kinds o Provisions: Flour, Bacon, Sugar, Coffee, Tea, Pickles, Tobacgo, Candles, Syrups, Fruits, dried and preserved, &c. Together with Mining Tools, &c., all of the best brands, and at the lowest prices, March 3d.—45—3t* PAPER HANGINGS: E have now onthe road, a large assortment of Wall Paper, which we shall sell very cheap. RNIN & CO., American Dry Goods and Clothing Store, o ? wt Ladies’ Hats, Spring Style. WE shall offer for sale on Monday nay a large and choice assortment of Fashionable Hats, consisting of rich satin trimmed and untrimmed Florence and Braid Bonnets, soft black Beaver Riding Hats, Bonnet Ribbon, GEO. D. DORNIN ¢ CO,, American Dry Goods and Clothing Store, 15-14 Commereial st.

Pee: XQ crvicacees jand bring it to bear by the weight of a diSenn ae een ee er ay The value of that threat depends upon tion. Whence . Francisco derive its wealth and importance! A. A. SARGENT EDITOR. , {another consid FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 4. . Solely froin the interior counties. Uponour pes itis dependent for its very existence. A Convention--Division. The correspondence of the Union from Benicia, published on the first page, will be. i AFA: found interestine . tion of profits from its inland trade. If that The question of a Conboos F ‘ : ;, . trade was cease to-merrow, and son aryention is being very generally discussed in . fade was to in ud some : ; r by a convulsion of natur as create the State, and most of the press have ex. bya con a eure. WAS created pressed opinions upon it. The views in opposition to this project we declared in September, 1851, and frequently since, we have scen no reason to change upon reading the . it = voluminous arguments in the Legislature tradition, years hence, would the visitor know and in the press, in favor of a Convention, . ithad existed. The vast amount of goods =a . . . . We have based our opposition principally . purchased for use in the mines for which gold upon the point that the main object of this . dust is exchanged, has been the means of enConvention is to secure a division of the viching San Francisco merchants, building State. Weobsorve by the admissions of Mr. . it fine blocks of buildings, and giving direc. Crabb, the mover of the subject in the Senate, that this is a principal object to accom. harbor. , plish. The question of an expense to the Francisco has no inherent cause save as a State in procuring necessary amendments to depot for she whole mining counties. From the Constitution is a light one, and should . * Small town the discovery of the mines, and not be so strenuously urged as to prevent the great interests that grew up in the midst important reforms in that instrument. But . of them, raised San Francisco at once to rias these amendments can be secured consti-. va cities well located on the Atlantic side. tutionally without a Convention, and there-. The trate of San Franciseo with the South fore in urging a Convention as a sine qua compared with the North is nothing, and . . . . } y } wtoe ‘Very AY non, the other object must be prominently in with the North it extends every day. } view, it is well for the advocates and op-. The flerald may deem the concentration posers of the Convention to take their posi-. of Property at San Francisco makes it the tions at once as for or against a division of . MOT Prominent field for the tax gatherer,— the State; and the favorers of the Conven. But the interests of mining counties are ev? . 3 . tion should no longer urge as‘its object the . 'Y day consolidating, Permanent cities are ob ss = property, but that property is the accumula. more convenient of access to the mines, San . Francisco would fall as rapidly as it has . rigen, struck by a paralysis so sudden and . fatal, that only by its mouldering ruins, or } . . docs San . It may talk loftily of the deference due to its . tion to the wings of ocean commerce to its . The proud preeminence of San . Tie Prank Roap.—On Monday night . Rich Discoveries of Gold, jaletter was received at Grass Valley, . ifrom Mr. Hardenburg of Sacramento, jin behaif of the citizens of that city.’ account a short time since-being the stating that $215,000 had been raisedin, Cayote lead that has been worked for Sacramento for u plank road to Nevada, over two years, $120 per pan was taken vie Auburn. . out on Tuesday last. These claims are Messrs. Woodruff and Eaton were on) paying admirably. jhand from Marysville, and stated the Wert Hint.—This hill is part of the lg £ 690? HOD head hee aisedi P ‘ 5 . sum of $202,000 had been raisedin thut same Cayote range, and bas thus far . icity for a plank road. l been the western boundary . . i From Auburn Messrs. Gwynn, Holt and Munsell, were present, and tenderof paying } It yielded $18 per pan the past . week, inthe claims of Dawley & ConGirt. led $150,000 as the subscription of Au. ree . burn and vicinity to the Sacramento. ~ Sprixe Buanen.—At this place, situ. plank roud, ‘ated near here on Little Deer Creek, Certain citizens of Grass \ alley im-. they took out the past week $50 per pan. jmediately subscribed $252,000 to the . . Marysville road, to be rendered in lumiber, one half cash to be repaid. ‘This . ae Pp en ae iday hy sluicing. proposition was aecepted. ; This looks well for the Marysville . jroad, which will be built beyond a : 3 ens , ne : loubt if M aT rf : fort Ar Surrey Frat.—In the claims of . ie Marysville continues i OFte:l ae, i : bie : re tie Sariadiaideabiads Warren & Co., $60 per pan were taken . jand interest. She has not come up to, : ; led t. by $48,000. Most of tl . out the past week. DPT DOS an 4 fe : sgh oa > nf . Sourn Yupa.—-This side of Hunt's . ORS en eee eee rine SBM: eee Ranch, at the Middle Crossing of the . oad, the lumber from this. Then if) . ; ‘ ie wands $9 » . , South Yuba, rich diggings bave been rmore mills g¢ york, as they. ,. : ‘ ae mn a ee i ipubesti . 1 “2 discovered on the top of the ridge, and . nust, exclusiy sis. lumber, . go must, exclusively upon this lum . $80 per pan taken ont. vi ry > oxpenses, any . 3 f ; . with $he qe phe ay bis, Spe »8DY) Minpir Yura.--Near Stafford s Ranch . remuneration for which cannot be exthe Middle Yuba, rich cayote dig. . jon ected j due 19s tl ren neirt . : <i pected in much less than o year, their gings have been found. They run ina direct north course, and are deemed by . . : e owners must be bankrupt, or heavily in j intelligent gentlemen to be a continuaRep DPoc.—In Perkins’ cayote digwings, three men took out $2,100 ina} Three years diggings . of presumed equal richness are situated . on the same hill. } a debt. Therefore, to help pay their way, and enable to furnish the immense aEricsson's Armospurrntc Exo int.— O.p Cayore Hin. -—lrom the claims! The immediate and complete success of of Miller & Co., of which we gave an. the new motive power discovered by Capt. Ericsson, seems to have charmed the entire press. No cavilling doubts are expressed, no faint praise, but it is unanimously conceded thata great principle in nature and science has been applied to the use of mankind. All unite in admiration and cordial praise. The . unsafe medium of steam will 8002 be disarded, and the equally powerful, cheaper and more harmless propulsive agency of caloric, take its place. The gratitude of the world will be laid at the feet of the man who for twenty years has patiently labored at his great idea, and at last lived to see the complete swevess of his magnificent project. The nomenclature that has obtained in reference to wheel vessels, as “steam ~ will now be at fault. We shall ers,” ‘soon read of calortcers or winders, or some such progressive term. Heo» We are indebted to Hon. W M. Gwin for valuable public documents. We are indebied to Messre. Lyons, Bostwick, €renshaw and Johnson, fur Legislative favors. Joaquin. —This desperado was still at large at last accouats, and committing murders and robberies, mostly upon Chinese. Two of his gang have been taken and hung since our last, and the reform of the judiciary, biennial legislative . 8"WiNs Up, and as soon as some tenure shall sessions, &c. The disingenuineness of the Convention advocates is most apparent in urging their purpose to reform the Constitube fixed in the land, for farms and building lots, the yield of taxes of these counties will . vastly increase, But it is madness without method for San mount of material, the proposition was made to Marysville. The lumber is the . heaviest item, but the contractors must tion of the famous cayote lead now worked in this city. Rusu Creex.—Before this season, for lack of water, the head of Rush Creek tion of the State, when their prime object is. to separate themselves from the State whose . organic law their last act will be to remodel. Why should Mr. Crabb, of San Joaquin, . feel such a deep interest in tha Constitution . : sPaght : of that part of the State which his avowed . vidi hon hii beng Ss edteea division. A didesign is to separate his section from, to or-. V0 OF the State giving San ell Ia ganize itinto aterritory? All his exposithe South, would stimulate the natural feel. ing which the citizens of every nation and Francisco to talk of separating itself from its markets by a State line. Its interests are too much dependent on the North. We smile at its threats, when all its own intortions of the irregularities of our organic law, . " eel and the necessity of radical change, must be . tte possess, that of desiring the possession viewed with susvicion, for the means he . £4 large emporium within their own limits. wishes to set in action to etiect these changes Seucelito or Benicia or some other point he designs shall place his section beyond the . would be fixed upon as the great city of the : 'Nort The . . we) r tha State reache! them. Ifthe Legislature shall deem . North. The northern POtAlD ot Ie State the recommendations of Goy. Bigler to be) would feel a pride mn building up its i bi of importance to the State, they can pass bis . $reat city, and withdraw its trade from the sec that sufficient allowance is made for . h grading, and other labor, out of the available funds. Tt is stated that parties will furnish $500,000 in lumber on the same terms as been but little prospected. This . . year miners average there $15 per day 'to the hand, and the diggings about . there are extensive, opening a wide! : : i field for profitable labor. . tothe Sacramento road. That project) Gusroxen Corr An.—The ridge be-. certainly drags heavily. Public feeling tween the middle and south forks of the . is in favor of it, but we cannot build so Yub much of it ourselves. Our their powers on one road. a, at Cherokee Corral is paying be. yond expectation, and miners are doing . citizens must now concentrate admirably. . , : it wilt be We receive accounts of rich discove. oie aa to get both roads finished this ries of gold every week, of the charac. ter of theabove. No better evidence is needed that gold is far from exhausted. . season, ind by attempting so to do,a great risk is encountered of having both and other amendments, and submit them to} the people; and the intelligent voice of the people will decide in favor or againstthe various amendments with more certainty and satisfaction than can be arrived at where a new Constitution, perhaps full of crudities, is submitted to be adopted or rejected in whole. Much abuse is heaped upon the original . framers of the Constitution by the advocates . of the convention. But have we purer or more enlightened men to frame anether Constitution? Ifthe present Legislature is to he taken as an example of what the conven. tion will be, we opine any advantages that will be reaped from its session will be accidental. Most searching and accurate portraits of the present Legislature have been drawn by the advocates of this convention in attempts to describe and denounce the framers of the Constitution. Until society is more settled, and the general character of . our legislators improved, we helicve no convention that can be thrown together by the heaving elements of political and sectional . intriguo, will be better than the original convention, that numbered among its members, . Gwin, Semple, Gilbert, Larkin, Sherwood, . Snyder, Sutter, Vallejo, Norton, Ellis, &c. But we observe a new feature is intro. duced into the discussion. The S. 2’ Herald. has started the idea that because San Francisco pays heavier taxes than any several of . the mining counties her representation should be based upon that and not upon her popu lation, and complains that the mining counties are oyer-represented. Accordingly, it says— “If the countics of the interior will hold this preponderance and will persist in this op. pression, by means of a mere brute force majority, based upon an unjust apportionment rival city of another State. But the threat of the Zferaid as an alternative to the introduction of a property quali. fication, is idle from another consideration. . At the last convention held in the South in favor of a division, San Francisco was unanimously rejected from their portion of the State, and placed north of the proposed division line. ‘The South won't have the city of shopkeepers, They reject San Francisco. It is exceedingly simple for San Francisco papers to hold threats of separation over the North to enforce concessions, when those who favor division will not take that city off with their portion. The prize the North will dose the South thinks no gain. Nor would it be. They want no such influences to neutralize the action of their sparsely populated counties. ‘The only resource San Francisco has South won't have it—it won't have the North —so chacun a son gout, C3 The San Francisco L/erald gives an interesting account of the pregress of vast quartz companies formed in England to inine upon humbug grants in Mariposa Co. The crudest statements appear in the prospectuses, as that the Merced is navigable, &e. Here is the project ofthe “ Albion Gold Mining Company” :— This Company proposes to take possession (under a conveyance in fee) of 1,000 acres of land upon the freehold estate of Alfred Clapp, Esq., in the county of Mariposa, California; and to work, on the cost book system, the gold mines thereon. Situate in the richest part of that famous region, the Burns’ Creek range of gold deposits stands unrivalled in the land of unlimited riches.— Through the centre of this estate, consisting of upwards of 2,000 acres, from southeast to northwest, a ridge of hills, the great basis of which is the gold-bearing quartz rock, diswhich they themselves fix, the sooner we get . rid of their thraldom the better ;—uand if this . can be done by no other means than by a di. vision of the State, why then Iet us have a. division.’’ { San Francisco is better represented in the . Legislature in proportion to its population than any other large county save Tuolumne, . which is too largely represented. In_ pros . portion to its population it has nearly double the representation of Bl Dorado, Calaveras, Nevada and Yuba. Ina new and just apportionment, these interior counties must . have their representation increased, and will . insist upon it. Population is the only acknowledged basis of representation, thank God, in a republican State. The poorest . man that walks in honesty in the community . is of as much political weight in the eye of law, as the lordliest capitalist. If an issue is sprung whereby men shall be discriminated against in favor of money, the interior will be ready to meet it, even though the result adverse to San Francisco, should cause that. city to urge division. Such attempts to sap . the fundamental principles of republicanism . and freedom, and introduce characteristics of . English political and social organization, where political weight means weight of dollars and birth, will be met on the threshold with scorn. It is fully demonstrated by the brilliant history ot this Republic, that power is safely lodged in the hands of the masses— . that no property qualification is necessary to

responsible action—that men, and not property, are the bulwarks of justice and free. dom. We should deem this course of ra mark superfluous did not an influential and, < Tee El Tsien al ~ BYge a different view, . . . i closes to the observer (at intervals) veins of rich ore cropping out at the hill sides in manifest splendor. From the bed and banks of the clear stream called Burns’ Creek, which (IN SUMMER UNFAILING AND IN WinTER UNFROZEN) flows through the estate at the base of these hills, it isknown by miners of that locality that nearly a millien and a . half sterling of fine gold has been taken in the last two years. After giving certificates of assay, &c., the prospectus goes on to say :— At this rate of yield one ton of the quartz rock would produce gold value £3,400 and upwards ; but assuming that instead of this result (viz: £1 5s. 33d. per Ib.) an average . of only Is. per pound troy was produced, a3 30 tons per day can be readily separated, . crushed, and washed at these mines, and the yield of gold would be at that rate £136 per ton, which multiplied by 80 gives £4,080 as the result of each day’s working, being £24,480 per week of six days, above £100,000 per calender month would be the gross produce. The officers of these companies are mar quises, baronets, solicitors, bankers, &c.— There are no freeholds in Mariposa Co., save . that of Col. Fremont, which has yet to stand the test of the U. S. Supreme Court, and this pretended claim of Alfred Clapp is not . embraced in that. Itis a piece of bare-faced imposition, to relieve John Bull of some of his surplus cash, Henny Jounson, of Portland, Me., fell overboard in San Francisco harbor on Saturday last, and was picked up senseless.— His spine was badly hurt, but it was thought he would recoyer. CS> The weather is clear and beautiful, and soft as May, in an incomplete state when the next rainy season setsin. ‘lhe extent of the subscription now furnished us must show the amount of zealand ability at the other end is inadequate to the emergency. We therefore call upoa our citizens to elect one route, and all to invest as the majority may decide. This is buta common-sense deduction from the present state of affairs. All the arguments . ever urged for a plank road now demand the completion of onc. Lvidently but! one can be completed. On that we can rely for protection against the bad roads and a cessation of business. The clauses in the state eonstitution making individuals liable for the debts of a corporation have retarded the Sac. is to set up a State in its own county. The . T@mento subscription, especially at the ¢/e gives a statement of a new claim in. Bay. Those clauses are one of the most objectionable features in the present! constitution, and were neyer conceived ina brain familiar with the affairs of a great commercial state. We trust these clauses will be abrogated by the pro-, posed amendments. Accipent.— We are informed by Dr. Knox that a man named Pat Jennings . had his shoulder mashed, and narrowly . escaped with his life, on Saturday last, in Miller's diggings, ou old Cayoto Hill. by the ground caving in, carrying with . it some large boulders, one of which struck himon the shoulder. After hay. ing his injuries examined and dressed, it was ascertained he was not permanently injured. Such aceidonts happen i frequently, and miners should exercise more care. In the same claims, about a week before a Mr. Kilpatrick had his leg and foot badly jammed by a boulder. Frencn Cornau.—We are informed by Dr. Reilley, that a man named Robert Barker was shot and mor. tally wounded by a Mr. De Lamar, proprietor of the F:1 Dorado saloon, at French . SHOOTING aT Corral, on Sunday night, about 10 o’. clock. Some dispute had risen between . them, which proceeded to blows, and De Lamar struck Barker on the head with a pistol. Barker pushed him back, . . when De Lamar fired at him, the ball . penetrating the pit of the stomach.— Upon medical examination the ball was found to have passed backward and . downward, and lodged in the body. Barker was bar keeper at the saloon—~is, . we believe, from New York, and is about (25 years old. It ig thought he cannot ‘survive the wound. De Lamar made. his escape. . For Avsrratia!—We would call atten. tion in another column, to the advertisement )of the well-known steamship New Orleans, . and to those who are desirous of embarking /on such a voyage. No better Opportunity could offer than the present, as the N. O. has been entirely refitted, as we are assured by . our correspondent, has been provisioned on ® inost liberal scale, and every attention will be paid to the comfort and convenience of . her passengers, of whom she takes but ‘hmited number _reason for this is, there is less prospect: . ! all the ranches on Jackson, Sutter and . . line of their duties. , than a year ago, for 500 head of cattle. . of the commissioners thus far seems to . surer its confirmation, Old miners believe there are undiscoy. ered deposits of gold as rich as ever . found, enough to last twenty years, in . this immediate neighborhood. Nevada . county now supplies the most impoitant item in the shipment of gold, and we re. joice at these evidences that her golden . treasures are not nearly exhausted.-. . persevering miners are at work with far) more general success than heretofore. Not only are rich and sudden strikes . made, but there is no complaint of want of work or success by the crowd. One ing and more work. . » iad t Lanp Craim.—The Calaveras Chroni. that county by Don Andreas Pico to eleven square leawues of land. This grant ; 3 : J . . includes all the rich agricultural bot. toms of the Mokelumne and Consumnes rivers, and Dry Creek, together with fone yalley and Buena Vista Ranch, and . Dry Crecks. It also includes the mineral region in Calaveras from Big Bur to Dry Creek, with the villages of Butte . city, Jackson, Sutter Creek, Amadore, Rancheria and Drytown. This grant, of which no one ever dreamed betore, was bought by Pico of a Spaniard less . Pico has claims before the commissioners excecding in extent the Stato of . Massachusetts. Ile was the Democratic candidate for elector last fall. If all his claims ate confirmed, and he can take possession of them, he will be the richest man in the world. The course indicate that every scrap of a title will Thus far no objection toa confirmation has been . allowed to have weight. The greater mystery in which a claim is wrapt, the . Weare heartily sick of this wholesale and continual severence of the best lands ot the State from the public domain. Its influence . must be to create collision and blood. shed, and retard the growth of the State. . Mineral lands as well as agricultural, . be available to the possessors. are thrown to the dogs by the commis. ied sioners, with hardly an appearance of . deliberation. . Arrray at Los AnGetos.—Some rowdies surrounded the house of Hon. A. . Stearns, at Los Angelos, on the evening . of the 22d of February, where a Ball was in progress,and after firing a cannon . and making other offensive demonstra. tions fired a pistol through a window, . wounding Judge M. Norton in the arm. . He, and another gentleman returned the fire from the house. The crowd pre. sently dispersed, leaving one of their men dead, and two others mortally wounded, BER. Large quantities of salmon, says a. the Union, are taken from the riyer at . &eSacramento . the last steamer from Europe. rest hotly pursued, but fresh and fleet . horses, that they seize wenever needed, fenable them to defy their pursuers. A. . report was published that Joaquin and his fellow cut-throats was penned in the . chapparel; but this has been coatradicted. He cannot long be at large. for the whole community is in arms against him. Cau. ron Lrerstative ATTENT! {trust the Legislature will not adjourn before attending to several pressing wants of the mijning counties. These may be briefly stated }as follows: Ist, Some law giving protestion to building lots, so that individuals may have hoinesteads, stores, &e¢., without risk of the destruction ot their property by undermining or otherwise, and that in case of fire the sufferers may hold their lots against those who may wish to dig . them away. 2d. A law defining real estate i the mining counties, so thatin execution processes advertisemont of sale may be given in county papera. As the construction now is, shetifis do not like to take the responsibility of assuming there is any real estate in the mines, and to advertise sheriff sales of “real estate,” as the law re. . Over every square mile of the county yuires, and thus valuable property is sacrificed. The interests of all parties are damaged by the present struature of the laws upon this spb; ject, and an interpretation never designed by the Legislature has obtained. A declaratory statute is all that is needed, and that greatly needed. 3d. It is a source of embarrassment in the mining towns that Juscices’ Courts have no power of service by publication, while no ne tion can be brought in the District Court for less than a certainsum. Individuals leays these towns owing debts of from $10 to $200, and perhaps property thas can be attached. 3ut as the debtors have left, no nection can be. had, and the amount is too sina}! for the District Court to take cognizance oj, Service by publication by Justices would not alter the principle on which such courts are based, while it would give greater efficiency in the proper Encrisn Butrer.—There were 1088 firkins of butter brought to Boston by Ft ia generally of the mosé delicious sort. At the same time there are tons of butter held from the market in New Hampshire in order to obtain high pricos.-— Butter, says the Bee, ean be brought from the most distant countries in England, and sold at a lower prico than what is demanded for that made. in thie vicinity. On tHe Fence.—Ravennn, the handsome county seat of Portage county, Ohio, is situated on the dividing ridge between the Cuyahoga and Mahoning rivers. it possesses one feature which belongs to no other towa or city in the Union. The rain which falls upon the north side of its court house roof finds ite way to Lake Erie, and that which fails on the south side runs to the Gulf of Mexico. es) Oo We are indebted to Adams § Co. for the delivery of papers and lettcrs the past week. frsWe are under continued obligations te Weils, Fargo & Co. for prompt rendering of express favars. See ND Coleman & Burton, NE now receiving at their store on Mair 4M. street, opposite Phelps’ Hotel, all kinds o Provisions: Flour, Bacon, Sugar, Coffee, Tea, Pickles, Tobacgo, Candles, Syrups, Fruits, dried and preserved, &c. Together with Mining Tools, &c., all of the best brands, and at the lowest prices, March 3d.—45—3t* PAPER HANGINGS: E have now onthe road, a large assortment of Wall Paper, which we shall sell very cheap. RNIN & CO., American Dry Goods and Clothing Store, o ? wt Ladies’ Hats, Spring Style. WE shall offer for sale on Monday nay a large and choice assortment of Fashionable Hats, consisting of rich satin trimmed and untrimmed Florence and Braid Bonnets, soft black Beaver Riding Hats, Bonnet Ribbon, GEO. D. DORNIN ¢ CO,, American Dry Goods and Clothing Store, 15-14 Commereial st.