Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1859 — Latest from the Gold Mines. [ARTICLE]

Latest from the Gold Mines.

[From the Quindaro (Kaunas) Chin,lowan.

Auraria, Nov. 30, 1858. We have had a good time of it. The weather lias been favorable, and our health good. I have one share in Aurafia City—a place started at the mouth of Cherry Creek, which is improving very rapidly. We have been here four days. There are seventvfive houses already put up, and three hundred more under construction. I believe it will be a large city before long. The houses are of logs, and the mine where gold is got best is lour or five miles from the town, on the Platte. Where they mine they take from $5 to sls per day. ' I have been busy building my house, and moved in o it today; and it is too cold to dig, or I would send you a sample of the gold. If you had your saw-mill here you could sell all the lumber you would want to at your own price. You ran get pine of very excellent quality within fifteen or twenty miles of the city. You had better start in March as early as p >ssible. I was forty-two days making the trip,and the roads are good, ‘if you had fifty cows here you could sell them at big prices. Mexican Hour is worth from sl2 to sls per bun. ilred; bacon 25c. per pound; common whisky per gallon, retailing at 25c. a drink,.. Kansas Legislature. —Several bills have been introduced into the Kansas Legislature to abolish slavery and make slaveholding * felony. Steps are being taken to make «i codifying committee, ta be composed of persons not members of the Legislature. -The Lecompton people were ; furious at the adjournment of the Legislature to The Secretary of the Territory, Mr. Walsh, took the Sergeant-at-arms of the house bv the throat when he went to' remove the benches. Two men were killed in rows at Leeompton that evening-

Got. Walker and his Secretary 1 Stanton of Kansas, have issued a card addressed to the people of the United States, iu 'The National Intelligencer, in respect to j the fraudulent Kansas election returns. Bat Jones one of the Judges of the notorious Oxford precinct, has lately published a : statement his name to the fraudulent Oxford j return, that it was forged. Mr. Walker . comments upon this fact as nn illustration tis the injustice done him by the Administration in censuring him for rejecting the' Oxford fraud. tfcs"Tt is stated as a reason why Vice President Breckenridge boards at a hotel instead ! ot occupying the magnificent residence recently completed for him, that the bulk of, his property was swallowed up by the fail*it« of the Ohio Life and Trust Company, j A “Brioht”’ Idea. —The DeKalb Go. \ Democrat runs up the name of our Bogus Senator Bright, for President in 1860! The Democrat must certainly be hard up for Pres- ! idential timber!— Norlhett tndianian. New Yoak Firemen have now a permanent fund of $95,250.