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Jenny Lind in Cincinnati. The Cincinnati Gazette states, by author ity, that Jenny Lind will arrive in Cincin nati on the 12th inst., and will give her first ‘concert on the 14th inst. Late California News, The Steamships Cresent City and Ohio arriv ed at New York on the 22d, with San Francisco ,dates to the 16th of Feb. The Crescent City brought 130 passengers, and a half million in gold. The Ohio 150 passengers and $325,000 in gold. There was much excitement on the Isthmus, occasioned by the murder of a party of travellers between Chagres and Panama. Nine or ten persons. Among them two women and three chil dren, were murdered by the boat’s crew while ascending the river. four persons, all Cartha genians, had been arrested for the crime. The Gold Bluffs excitement had considerably subsided. The reported rich silver mines be yond the Sierra Nevada, like many of the gold stories, appear to have been sheer humbug. The winter has been one of remarkable dry ness. The Sacramento Transcript says the weather for three months has been delightful, and the attempt to get up a rainy season has been a total failure. The entire fall of rain up to Feb. Mth had been only about six inches.— The temperature had been like the closing days of May to the Atlantic States. The Transcript states that the intelligence from the mining country is rather discouraging, not from an exhaustion of gold, but from lack of water to wash it out. The bulk of the miners had gone to the mines in the Northwest, to the tributaries of the Klamath River, on the western slope of the Coast range. The Transcript has a number of big lamps and ‘‘rich digging” re ports
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Norwalk Huron Reflector

Norwalk, Ohio, US

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