The Lancaster Gazette

Sixteen Days Later from California

The New York Tribune has advices from San Francisco to August 18th, being sixteen days later than the news brought by the steamer Panama. This intelligence was received through Mexico, and is of consequence only as showing that nothing of importance had occurred in California since the date of our former advices. The Tribune says:

"The news from the mines is of a quite glowing character; the yield of gold was steady, and though there was, as a matter of course, much disappointment among individuals, the general result was highly satisfactory. It is estimated that the average product of all the mines together, thus far, since the beginning of the season, has been $2,000,000 per month, and there was thought to be no doubt of its continuance at the same rate of abundance. No change is quoted in the prices either of gold or merchandise.

"The health of the population, both at the mines and elsewhere, is generally good, and neither cholera nor any other serious malady is reported as having made its appearance.

"The jealous unfriendly feeling which has so long been in existence between the Americans and South Americans of Spanish origin has at last approached a crisis. The Americans have determined that the Mexicans and Chilians who are at the mines shall no longer enjoy the privilege of digging out the riches of the earth, and have taken deliberate measures accordingly. All companies of these nations who have come organized to work for the season, with the intention of returning to spend the winter and wet season at home, have been informed that their presence will no longer be tolerated, and have received positive orders to leave the gold region and not return. The order to evacuate allows a fixed time, sufficient for the retiring parties to make all necessary preparations. The Americans seem, from our information, to have proceeded very calmly about it, and up to the 18th no disturbances whatever had taken place; they were waiting for the expiration of the allotted period, after which, should the rejected adventurers refuse to leave, they would set about making them. When that moment arrives, there is in the nature of the case danger of fighting and bloodshed.

"Politics seems to be much more quiet through the territory than at the last dates, when the bustle of the elections had not yet ended and the excitement of parties was still fresh. Now it is comparatively stagnant, not a word is mentioned in our advices about the proposed State Constitution nor is the Convention so much as alluded to. From this, the inference naturally is, that the people are too intently occupied with the great business of taking up gold and getting rich to devote any great amount of thought, in the hot weather of the dog days, to any thing of so little personal interest as public affairs in a country where the spoils of the treasury are not so rich as those of the placers, nor so easy of access and exciting in the acquisition as those of a faro bank or a roulette table."