CALIFORNIA. [From the Maitland Mercury, Nov. 2.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 557, 4 December 1850, Page 3

CALIFORNIA. [From the Maitland Mercury, Nov. 2.]

The Overland Emigrants. — WV have >ad accouats of cholera among the Calilornia

emigrants on the Plains. A letter dated ninety miles out stated that sixteen members of the Marshal Company from Michigan had fallen victims. Six members of another company had also died, and many were sick. The writer represents the suffering from exposure and absolute want among the emigrants to be extreme and truly deplorable. Many who left their homes with small means were obliged to spend all they had, and even to sell their outfits, at the points on the Missouri where they were detained by the backwardness of the spring; and were thus left destitute, unable alike to proceed or return. As everything in the way of provisions were exorbitantly high, many, very many, thus stripped of their ali, were actually suffering from want. — Journal of Commerce, Aug. 1.

The late Mining Disturbances. — The Sonora Herald says, that law and order is triumphant in Sonora. The excitement of the past three weeks has subsided into a healthful state of public feeling. All men see that a state of law is every way better than anarchy. It is cheaper to pay the taxes necessary for the support of law, than to waste time and money iv suppressing mobs, or in contending with desperadoes. Every American citizen is bound to show his attachment to the laws. Even if these are not in every respect the most desirable, yet lee them be complied with until the next session of the legislature, when they can be repealed. This is the true American doctrine, and we are happy to know that the Americans are now preaching and practising in conformity with it. When you bear a man who speaks English talking in a different strain, set him down for a Sydney convict who wishes to destroy law, in order that he may pursue his former calling with less peril and greater success. — Daily Courier, August 9. Interesting from the Mines. -Through Todd & Co.'s express line, we have received the Stockton Journal of the 7tb. The Stockton Journal say s that "leports from above bring the welcome intelligence that the recent excitement is disappearing; and it is believed that the outlaw gang which has inflicted such injury upon our district, alarmed at the active measures taken to capture, or drive them from the country, have decamped of their own accord. No doubt the recent outrage at Dickensou's fern, on the San Joaquin, was committed by them, before they finally crossed the Colorado, but it is bop«d and believed, that they have left the southern mines." — Ib.

New Placers Discovered* — We gatfier the following highly interesting intelligence from the mining region, from the Stockton Journal and the Sonora Herald. The Journal says :—": — " The gratifying intelligence has been ' made known here, within a lew days past of the discovery of an (xiensive and rich placer between the head waters of the Stanislaus and Merced, at the base of the snowy ridge. It is said there is room in these new diggings for twenty thousand miners. We announce the intelligence with pleasure, and hope tLat at least many Americans will reap a pile from the site of the new discovery. A small expedition started from here last week, for the purpose of crossing the Sierra Nevada, to a newly discovered £1 Dorado on the eastern slope. A gentleman who lately returned from the scene of this late discovery, reports that the gold on this side is but a " drop in the bucket," compared to what will be gathered beyond the ridge. — Ib.

Southern Mines. — The dry season has now so far advanced that the Stanislaus and the Tuolumrae are in good working condition, and both those rivers are already yielding a moderate quantity of gold, and as the water continues, to fall, the exertions of the miners will meet with a richer reward. There are at least from 8000 to 10,000 on the bars of the rivers in this county. There is a great confidence exhibited by the mineis in the river claims, and shares are sold frequently at prices ranging from 100 to 1500 dollars. — Ib.