A convention was signed at the city of San Jose on the 2d July last, between the minister resident of the United States in Costa Rica and the plenipotentiaries of that Republic, referring these claims to a board of commissioners and providing for the payment of their awards.

Following an honorable discharge at the close of the war, and a year's exciting experiences in the gold fields, he settled in San Jose in November, 1849, then the capital city.

"I went an' sent off a telegraft to my brother in San Jose about you, and he's wrote a letter to yuh.

A few years ago in passing from San Jose to the Coast, my wife and I spent Sunday at Scott's Valley.