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THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1850.
FOR CONGRESS,
GEN. JOSEPH M'DONALD,
OF CAMBRIA COUNTY,
Suhjeet to the decision of the Democratic Con
gressional Conference.
STATE NOrfTINiLTIOXTS.
FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER,
WILLIAM T. MORISON,
Of Montgomery County,
FOR AUDITOR GENERAL,
EPHRA1M BANKS,
Of Mifflin Connty.
I OR SURVEYOR GENERAL,
J. POUTER. BR AW LEV,
Of Crawford County.
Con illy Nominations.
COMMISSIONER.
JAMES SKULL Y,
Of Summer hill Toicnship.
PROSECUTING A TTORNEY.
MICHAEL 1IASSON,
Of Elensburg.
COUNTY SURVEYOR.
THOMAS M CONNELL,
Of Summerhill Township.
AUDITOR.
JOHN BEARER,
Of Susquehanna Township.
COUNTY COMMITTEE.
Jaract Murray, Chairman, John C. O'Neill,
.John A. Blair, George Delany, Patrick Shiels,
Stephen Lloyd, Jr Mathiaa S. ilarr, James
Kennedy, John Flick, Andrew Burgoon, Geo.
Kutlodgo, Edward Irwin, John Eijan, Jonn
Murray, Smith Sergeant, James Potts, Thom.
bb A. Maguire, W. W. Harris, Feter Singer,
Lewi Dnnmire. John J. Hornor, James Burk,
Jacob Pringlc, Ilcnry Lloyd, Francis Bearer,
John M'Gough. James M. RifHe, John Bur
goon, David Younkin.
0Tiie Sentinel, has much the largest cir
culation of any paper published in this county
and as an advertising sheet offers superior
inducements to merchants and business men
generally. Those desirous of making vs of
this medium for extending their business can
do so by either sending their notices direct, or
through the following agents:
John Crouse, Esq., Johnstown.
E. W. Carr. Evans' Buildings, Third t
Philadelphia.
V. tt. I'almer, Esq., NeioYork Philadelphia
and Baltimore.
t3?Vc have delayed the publication of i the Echo man, and is best answered by the
our paper one day it; order that all handsacts of the convention itself which intruc
might have an opportunity of enjoying ted the conferees "to support from first to
the Fourth
Meeting of the Conferees.
We have learned from Samuel II. Tate
Esq., one of the Congressional Conferees
from Bedford county, that the Congres
sional Conlerees of Westmorland and
Bedford have selected the Summit as the
place'of meeting and the 16th of July as
the time, to put in nomination a candidate
for Congress to be supported by the De
mocracy of the District, at the coming fall
lection. The Summit occupies a central
position in the District and is very easy of
act-ess, and we think it the mostappropri
ate place that could have been selected.
fGen. Bickel the State Treasurer,
paid the July interest on the State debt
on Monday last, al the Bank of Pennsyl
vania, in Philadelphia.
CFThc Card signed "James Davis and
ethers ," published in the last Echo, is
-imusing. Wc would like to sec the
names of some of the "others," which it
wishes to induce its readers Jo believe
have signed. Conic, out with their :ainos--,
Mr. Efho.
Wilis .cminalions.
The Whi Convention which asscm-
bled in thit place on Tuesday lust made
the following nominations:
County Commissioner Edward Glass,
of Lorctto.
Prosecuting ,7ttornry Edward Hut
chinson, Jr., of Ebcnsburg.
Cmtnty Surveyor John Slick, of Rich
land. .lud it or -Richard J. Proudfoot, of While
Representative Conferees were appoint
ed to meet the Conferees of Bedford coun
ty, instructed to support Evan Roberts, ol
Johnstown, for Assembly.
ouch a ticket can ucvei expect nor re
vive the support of any democrat,, and
fin nf course easily be defeated. It is
s ifiicient for the. democracy of Cambria
tu Know that they are bitter, uncompro
mising whigs of the .genuine- Galphiu
M-.hool, in order to nllvour whole Mmi'th
;igint Uieiu.
Y
EsThe Editor of the "Mountain Echo"
appears to be "brimful of wrath and cab
bage" because the late Democratic county
Convention would not adjourn on the mo
tion of.his chum Maguire, as he wished it
to do, without appointing Concessional
Conferees as has been customary for years
past. The unusual manner, and unusual
time selected by himself, and those with
whom he acted, in appointing Conferees
in April last without any notice being giv
en of their intention so to do, in order to
let the people act, and the causes therefor
it might no doubt be very unpleasant to
those concerned to inquire into. But this
is not now our purpose, nor do we deem
it necessary to reply to all the trash con
tained in last week's paper. The attempt
now made to create the impression that
the conferees were appointed by the con
vention after it had adjourned is all folly
and worthy of the originators of this story,
so flatly contradicted by a large majority
of the convention who signed its proceed
ings. The truth is the convention did not
adjourn upon Maguire's motion being put,
but immediately- proceeded to consider he
motion of Mr. Donoughe to appoint con
ferees, when Maguire, the Editoi of the
Echo and a few others one by one left the
room, the main body of the convention
remaining in their seats, and proceeded to
appoint conferees, and a standing commit
tee for the ensuing year. Seventeen out
of twenty-eight delegates never left the
room until they had transacted all the bus
iness usually performed by the county
convention, when they adjourned, and
now the Editor of the Echo labors hard
to prove that the convention had-adjourned
when he and Maguire had left the room
followed by the delegates from Richland
&c, and that the course ol the majority
of the convention was all wrong. He al
so charges the convention with being influ
enced by the dictation of Wm. S. Camp
bell Esq., in the election ol congressional
conferees, and with "a desperate attempt
to disorganize the democratic party."
Such charges come with a bad grace we
think from the Editor of Echo, or those
who have heretofore practiced "disorgani
zation," nor do we suppose that cither
Mr. Campbell, or the members of the con
vention would feel much alarmed at the
charges emanating from the quarter they
do. The idea "that a clandestine project
was in contemplation to rob Cambria co.
of her choice to the next candidate for
Congress," because the convention though1
proper not to adjourn at the desire of Mr.
'Maguire, but to pursue the usual course of
appointing conferees, is only worthy of
last the nomination of a Cambria county
man."
The gross perversion of facts, and basei
charges relative to the late Convention
made by the Editor of the Echo, we feel
satisfied will meet with an indignant con-
tradition frnm Mr. Campboll anil the
members of the Convention. If the Edi
tor of the Echo believed that Conferees
ought not to have been appointed by the
Convention, we opine he would have
shewn much more sense to have quietly
submitted to the will of the majority,
awaited the decision of the Congressional
Conference which will shortly meet, as to
which set of Conferees were most regu
larly appointed and entitled to their seats,
and not have attempted to impugn the
motives, and malign the character of other
members of the party.
Wc shall now leave the matter, and in
answering the four or five columns of
trash contained in the last Echo, we are
only sorry to have occupied so much
space, and will be perfectly willing to
abide the decision of the Congressionaj
Conference. At all events we hope the
Editor of the Echo may be found as ready
ad willing as we arc to ensure the nomi
nation flnd election of a Cambria County
man to represent our district in the next
Congres'-
CPThc DGyitown Independent Dem
ocrat announces that Joshua Duxgan, of
of Bucks county, the anti-"ar Whig can
didate for Canal Commissioner, was a
noisy opponent of the war, the very n
for which Mr. Stkoiim was denied the
nomination. This is something like going
out for wool and coming home shorn.
The New York Democracy. The
New York city Democratic Convention
assembled again at Tammany Hall, on
Wednesday night, when the address and
resolutions previously reported by the
committee were adopted by a vote of 10
to 10; so that the party is committed
against the Wilmot Proviso, and in favor
,of compromise ;ud conciliation. The ad-
dress sn s:
" I he conclusions, then, to which the
Convention have arrived on this all ab
sorbing subject, are, to leave the institu
tion of slavery to the people of the Slates
and territories. J hey should be the sole
juuges wnetner tney will have it or not,
and to their will we should all submit."
It takes the same ground with reference
to slavery in the District of Columbia.
A Clincher!
We commend the following card from
Mr. James Davis, a delegate to the late
Convention from Jackson to the serious
consideration of our neighbors of the Echo .
In their efforts to create a false issue, and
to sustain themselves in the position they
have assumed, they have resorted to
means derogatory to the character of gen
tlemen, and which has recoiled with a
vengeance upon their own heads. Mr.
Davis has no idea of denying the course
he pursued as a Delegate, or of dodgin(r
the responsibility, and when he signed
the card which appeared in the Echo, in
the bustle of the moment, he had no
knowledge whatever of its character.
Allusion is al&o made by the Echo to
certain expressions of Mr. William Glass
a Delegate from Susquehanna, by which
they endeavor to place him in a false po
sition in relation to the proceedings of the
Convention. We are authorized by him
to state that the assertions of ;he Echo are
false, that he never stated that when he
signed the proceedings of the Convention
he was not acquainted with their character,
or that hehad any intention of appearing in
any other position before his fellow citi
zens than the one in which the published
proceedings of the Convention placed
him. We will see whether the Echo
will do justice to these gentlemen by con
tradicting its assertions and stating what
they know to be the truth.
A CARD.
The undersigned one of the Delegates
to the late County Convention has under
stood that a certificate lias been published
in the last Mountain Echo to which his
name is attached stating that, he did not
vote for the selection of Congressional
Conferees at said Convention, that the
question was considered settled by the
April meeting, and that the Convention
had adjourned previous to the selection
of Congressional Conferees. This is a
perversion of the facts ns they occurrred,
and the subscriber is willing to admit that
he did sign a paper, but that it was done
in a hurry in the evening after the meet
ing of the Convention, and under a misap
prehension as to its purport, and without;
any idea of its publication. !
The undersigned did vote for the ap-j
pointment of Congressional Conferees by
the Convention, believing that it had al
ways been the usual practice of that body
so to do, and that the Convention did not
adjourn until after the Congressional Con
ferees and County Committee had been
appointed, although a motion had been
made for that purpose.
JAMES DAVIS.
The "Fancral of the Trench."
2n Impressive Scene The Cleveland
Plaindealcr in its account of the horrible
catastrophe of the burning of the steamer
Griffith, with the loss of near two hund
red lives, has the following:
"l?y far the saddest sight was the 'fu
neral of the trench.' On a small hillock,
on the high bank overlooking the scene
of death, where the night before-so many
struggled in vain against their fate, was
opened a trench thirty feet long, six wide,
and eight deep. In this had been laid in
promiscuous order, man, woman, child;
husband, wife, and daughter; the father
and son, mother and infant layer upon
layer, until within four feet of the sur
face. What a horrid work! To see hu
man beings arranged for compactness, the.
rough pile and larger bodies leveled up
with children and lesser bodies, so that
this vast grave should present an even
surface to the brush and boards which
were laid over their faces, and on which
the earth which was dug out of the pit
was thrown back. When we ascended
the bank, we found two or three hundred
people around the brink of this mound
taking a last look, and performing the last
sad rites to the victims below. A clergy
man or exhorter was addressing the by
standers, and warning them in accents
solemn of the uncertainty of life, and the
fleetncss and vanity ofall things here be
l9w. Although there was no procession,
no tolling bell, no coffined hearse, or fu
neral array, the scene was solemn and
impressive. Yet how soon will this event
be forgotten."
The whole amount of subscription re
quired for the completion of the Pennsyl
vania Railroad has been secured, with a
considerable surplus, which will be ap
plied, ss far as it will go, to stocking the
read, And th'Jre is little doubt that the im
provement will DOW be completed and
equipped at the earnest possible day,
without incurring one dollar of debt.
Reported Confession of Pfcf, Webster.
Boston, June 29. It is reported here,
on high authority, that Prof. Webster has
written a letter to the Governor and Coun
cil, confessing that he killed Dr. Parkman
but that it was not a murder, and praying
that his sentence may be commuted. The
letter, though long, docs not, it is said, give
the details of the fatal transaction. It
will probably be before the Council next
I ucsdav.
Kossuth and his Compatriots.
Offer of President Taylor to bring
them to America. The Washington cor
respondent of the Philadelphia Bulletin
gives the following facts relative to the
action of President Taylor for the relief
of the Hungarian patriots:
Mr. Marsh, Minister to Turkey, under
instruction from this Government, wrote
to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the
Porte a note on the 11th of March last,
which contained this clause:
"The President of the . United States of
America, participating in the philanthropic
sentiments by which his imperial Majesty
the Sultan has been actuated in his noble
and generous treatment of the Hungarian
refugees, has directed the undersigned,
Minister resident of the United States, to
intercede with his Majesty in their behalf,
and to offer them, through his Majesty, a
secure asylum in the United States, to
gether with a free passage to America, by
any American public ship which may be
about to return home. The undersigned
is nappy to make this office of humanity
the subject of his first official communica
tion to the Sublime Porte, and seizes the
earliest moment, after his audience of re
ception, to fulfill his instructions by form
ally, requesting in the name of the Amer
ican government and people, that Kossuth,
late chief executive officer of Hungary
and his companions, at present detained
by the Turkish authorities at Broussa,
may be permitted to take passage for the
United States on board an American ves
sel of war now in ihe Mediterranean, and
about to sail for home."
The vessel was the steamer Mississippi,
which Mr. Marsh, under constructive au
thority, had detained for that purpose. On
the 19th of March seven days after the
date of the above Mr. Marsh received a
brief official reply to his note, of which
the subjoined is the essential part:
" 1 he Sublime Porte will certainly offer
no obstacle or difficulty to tbe departure,
to whatever place they please, of such of
tne Hungarians as are not implicated; nor
is there any objection to those Hungarians
and Poles whose names are not registered
in the list given to the Sublime Porte by
the Austrian Government, or who are not
otherwise implicated, profiting by the hos
pitality thus offered by the United States
of America. Yet, in consequence of the
offer spontaneously made by the Sublime
Porte, it bound itself to keep in the Otto
man dominions, under certain conditions
which it is now endeavoring to arrange,
those of the chiefs of the said people,
whose names are entered on that list; and
in the view of acting with sincerity and
probity in its intercourse and relations
with other friendly governments, and
maintaining its given word, it is obligatory
on the part of his Imperial Majesty, the
Sultan, to execute that offer. Under these
circumstances, the Ottoman Government
feels itself compelled to decline permitting
said chiefs to proceed to America.
El Said Mehem ed Emir Alli."
Mr. Marsh subsequently adds: "I learn
that the substance of my note was com
municated to the Austrian and Russian
Ministers at Constantinople, and that they
were urged by the Porte to consent to the
emigration of the Hungarian refugees to
America, but without effect. I am happy
to add, that I believe Baron Tecco, the
highly respectable Minister of the King of
Sardinia at Constantinople, supported our
application with great zeal, and I suppose
also that the British Ambassador threw
his influence into the same scale.
"I am now by no means without hope
that Kossuth and his friends will be
speedily released, unless Austria uncondi
tionally accepts the Sultan's offer of a
detention for a single year, which there is
little reason to suppose she will do."
The terms of the Sultan's offer were,
that Kossuth and thirty others should be
sent into Asia Minor, and there detained
for a year, while the residue, twelve hun
dred in number, should be kept at Choumla
for the same period, and then released.
This winds up the whole story of Ameri
can intervention, and reflects honorably
upon the Administration. -
The Nicaragua Canal.
If the statements of the New York Her
ald may be relied upon, preparations are
oemg made to open this communication
between the Atlantic and Pacific ocean as
soon as possible; and, within the space of
three months, or perhaps two, it will be in
such a state of forwardness as will' allow
of the transportation partly by land, but
principally by water, of passengers and
merchandise from ocean to ocean, without
any delay or detention worth speaking of.
Ihe construction of suchimunication
was, as our readers are pevtruy-ware ce
ded by the government of Nicaragua to a
company of enterprising American citi
zens, most of whom arc well known to
the public as men of energy and enterprise.
These gentlemen will employ in the course
of two months, two splendid steamships,
to run between New York and San Juan
the Crescent City ana theEmpire City.
From San Juan, the riverof San Juan and
the lake of Nicaragua will be navigated bv
steamboats of light draught to the town of
Nicaragua, distant fourteen miles from the
Pacific,. which distance will be traversed
on land by means of carriages. By the
time that these arrangements are comple
ted, the steamships New Orleans and Sa
rah Sands will connect with the Crescent
City and the Empire City on thn Pacific,
and run regularly on that ocean to San
rrancisco, thus making the line of com
munication complete between New York
and California by that route. This route
is one thousand miles shorter than that by
t;ic isthmus ol 1'anama, which is now
great thoroughfare to California.
The Niagara's News.
The steamer Niagara arrived at Boston
o
on Wednesday evening, and the foreign
papers hrought by her came to h and last
evening. The news is extremely unim
portant. In b ranee, the chief points o
interest are the debate on the President's
salary, and the progress of the election in
which Emile Girardin, the Socialist edi
tor, is contending for a seat in the legis
lative Assemblv. J he Greek question
has been hushed up for the present, if not
settled. 1 he President had made a visit
to St. Quentin, during which he gave
away aoout u.UUO lrancs and this is off
ered as a reason for increasing his salary.
Two trials had taken place for libels on
the President, in one of the cases the ac
cused was acquitted.
From England, we see but little that is
of any interest. There had been scarcely
any change in commercial affairs during
the week. Nothing could be more sea
sonable than the weather. Throughout
England, Ireland and Scotland, there has
been a regular alternation of sunshine and
showers.
Arrangements have been made for hold
ing a great public meeting of the clergy
and laity of the church of England, on the
27th June, for the adoption of certain res
olutions with reference to the late deci
sion of the judicial committee in the case
ol "Gorham vs. the Bishop of Exeter."
The ex-king of the French, although
suffering from a very serious, chronic af
fection, is still not in a state to cause anv
apprehension of immediate danger, and he
has already experienced some benefit from
the air of St. Leonard's.
The poet Rogers had met with an acci.
dent which endangers his life.
Chartist meetings have recently been
held in Glasgow and Aberdeen, at which
31r. Fergus O'Connor, M. P., attended,
and spoke at some length.
Case of Mr. Smith O'Jlrien.In the
House of Commons, on Friday night,
Mr. L. O'Brien called the attention ofthe
Government to the state of health and the
treatment of his brother, Mr. Smith O'
Brien, the convict upon Maria Island,
Van Dieman's Land. The honorable
member stated that his health was suffer
ing, and described at some length the reg
ulations under which he was placed, fn
consequence of having refused the indul
gence of a ticket of leave.
Further Xews by the Pacific-
New York, July 1.
The Pacific encountered heavy western
gales for the first three and a half days,
accompanied by a heavy sea. The en
gines had not been stopped. She was
boarded at sea by the new schooner of
the Associated Press. Her time to Hali
fax was 9 days, 1 1 hours.
Heavy bets were pending in Liverpool
that the Asia would arrive there on Friday
night.
The Europa's news was published on
Monday, but had no other effect than to
cause a trifle more activity in the Cotton
market; sales of fiOOO bales; market clo
sing firn$ prices unchanged.
Liverpool. The Corn market was
well attended by home and country mil
lers on Tuesday, and there has been an
improved demand tor WTheat and Flour at
full rates. Indian Corn has advanced 6d.
per qr. since Friday; sales are being made
for Ireland. In Sugar, a fair business at
full rates of Friday. In Metals there is
more demand for manufactured, and pri
ces are suffer. Tin Plates are in good
demand, and prices have slightly advanced.
The Money market is easy. Accounts
from the manufactuiing districts continue
satisfactory.
England.
The House of Lords was the scene of
an exciteing debate on Monday night,
growing out of Lord Stanley's motion Rel
ative to the conduct of the Governmennt
in the Greek affair. Lord Stanley pre
faced its introduction by a speech of near
ly three hours duration, in which he con
tended that the leading characteristics of
the whole transaction with Greece were
prevarication and dishonor on the part of
me iumisiry. At the conclusion of his
speech, which was loudly cheered, he
made a vigorous appeal to the House not
to allow the mighty power of England to
be prostituted in opposing a week and al
most defenceless nation.
The Marquis of Lansdowne undertook
a defence of Lord Palmerston, but met
. i .
wnn poor success, as on dividing, the
Ministry were left in a minority of thirty,
seven.
The bill for the abolition of the Lord
Lieutenancy of Ireland oassed second
reading by a large majority.
Should the Ministry not speedily resign
there is a growing belief that thereat Ex
hibition of all nations will fail for want of
funds.
The growing crops throughout Great
Britain are said to look unusually promis
ing.
Prance.
The announcement made on Friday
that the Rusian Government had protested
against the manner in which the Greek
aflair was terminated by Mr. Wvse. is
fully confirmed.
Ihe committee appointed to examine
the bill for increasing the salary cf the
l-resiueni nave reported, and the report
was aaopiea in sessnon.
The following regulations on the ex
traordinary credit of one million six hun
dred thousand francs, is opened for the
Minister of Finance; and the expenses
incurred in 1S50 for the installation of
the President, this expence to be alloca
ted, half to the credit of 1850.
Pari-', Sunday evening. The news
lof th'! diverse decision of the Committee
cn President's Salarv
.... , , u ii reai sen.
sation in Assembly on Saturday;
,uVt 9riobe.JcorresPcr is assured
that the President will not accept of an
modification of the sum lie lias demanded
and that he regards it all as a Legitim;
intrigue, get up with a view cfprovckirV
a cnsis. 1 '
Pari s Monday. CaUriCl Council
was held to day. It was resolved that
the Ministers should resign in the evert
of the Ministers'Salary Bill being rejected
in Assembly.
Austria.
An ordinance for abolishing Custom
duties between Austria and Hungary has
been published. The government do no'
however, propose to relinquish iheiV
present monopoly in the tobacco trade. '
Arrival of the Steamer Ohio-12 Da js Later rem
Havana-
The steamship Ohio, Captain Schenck
arrived at New York at 4 o'clock on Mon
day afternoon from Havana, via u
Orleans. She brings the Cali forma ma?!
and twelve days later news from Havana,
forty-five passengers from California. n
about S150.000 worth of gold.
The Falcon arrived at Havana eariv
on the morning of the l8th;from Chagres.
The Georgia arrived the next day both
were to sail on the 20th the Geonr'iA fat
Chagres, and the Falcon for New Orleans.
Ihe news from Havana and the other
part of the Island is of little interest.
The prisoners captured by the Pizarro
are yet on board the Soprano," where
they will remain until disposed of by ike
Spanish Government, at home. q
the meantime, they are undergoing asort
of mockfial, preparatory to knowing
their fate. Havana was perfectly quiet.
The Cholera had in a great measure
disappeared, and business of every des
cription was astir.
In addition to the gold brought faci
California, the Ohio brings one hundred
thousand Mexican dollars, consigned to
Wm. Hoge & Co. of New York. She
brings 144 passengers in all, among them
a number of families who have come
Noith to spend the summer.
From Florida Army Movements.
We have already noticed the arrival of five
companies of the 7th infantry at New Or
leans, on their way to St. Louis, and now
learn from the Picayune that the steamer
Fashion was to return to Tampa for the
other five companies of the regiment.
From St. Louis they are to be sent on
western frontier service. A correspondent
of the Picayune says:
"There will be left in Florida twentv
two companies of artillery. Five compa
nies of the 2d artillery are now at Indian
river, commanded by Major Lowd; one
company of 2d artillery at Miama river,
commanded by Major Woodbridge; four
companies of 3d artillery, Under Colonel
Steptoe, are ordered to Fort Meade,
where there are now three companies of
the 1st artillery nnder command of Capt.
Vodges; two companies of the 4th at
Chokonickla, commanded by Capt. Rob
erts; two companies of the 4th artillery at
Fort Hamer, commanded by Major Mor
ris; one company of the 4th artillery at
Charlotte Harbor, commanded by Brevet
Captain Rains; one company (mounted)
of the 4th artillery at Fort Meaae, com
manded by Captain Getty; and three com
panies of artillery at Calockahatche, com
manded by Major Ridgely.
"The Indians say positively that they
will not leave the country, and it is no
use trying to persuade them.''
Honor to Col. Fremont. At the late
anniversary meeting of the Royal Geo
graphical Society, at London, as we learn,
from the report of proceedings in the
Athenaeum of the 8th, "the Patron's cr
Victoria gold medal" was presented to
the Hon. Abbot Lawrence, the American
ambassador, for transmission to Col. Fre
mont, whose numerous expeditions thro
the mountain regions of the Far West,
conducted with so much spirit and adding
so largely to our geographical knowledge,
have rich Jy entitled him to the distinction .
California.
We add the following., items brought
by the "Crescent City," to those which
we have already published..
Ihe city of Los Angelos is said to be
very duM, a large portion of the male in
habitants having left for the mining region.
JUining lalk. We conversed yester
day with a gentleman who had just re
turned from the Trinity. He started froa
Benicia about six weeks since, and was
twelve days on the way to the second
canon. The water was still so high that
advantageous operations would have to bd
delayed two or three months; there was
considerable snow encountered on the
way, and during the last four days they
were there it fell continually.
Ihe party were not impressed wu&
the peculiar advantages of these digging
and most of them returned. They esti
mated the number there at 800, and met
sometimes as many as 100 per day on tfce
road. A third canon had oeen discov
ered about twelve miles below the sec
ond, and was very favorably represented.
On visiting it, however, they were ia-
duced to remain. An old mountaineer
informed them that he had, followed the
stream called Trinity to its junction witn
Kogua river, and thatlrorn thence r. w-fc
a direction north of west into the ocean.
The wate of the Trinity was found w
disagree with a good many of the miners
Diarrhea prevailed, and the impression
was very unfavorable to the health oft"'
place in the more advanced season. A
large number had died. there during tbe
winter; 10 out of 10. Few .realize
any very extravagant success. Thc?