The Daily Union Sacramento, Cal. Thursday, September 17, 1852 HORRIBLE ACCIDENT - A miner, named George Curtis, engaged in working in a ravine near the Pilot Hills, in El Dorado county, met with an awful accident on Saturday evening last, while on his way to one of the Bars on the North Fork. He left his tent about dusk in company with a friend for the purpose of purchasing provisions. Before they had reached the brow of the hill, above the river, it had become dark, and the two soon after lost their way and became separated. The companion of CURTIS after halloing a long time in vain, proceeded on to the store expecting to meet him there. In this he was disappointed, and compelled to return to his tent, but he found that also deserted. Early on Sunday morning he started in search of him, and to his horror found his mutilated remains at the bottom of Rocky Canon, a precipitous gorge running from the brow of the hill down to the river. The perpendicular depth of the ravine at the point where CURTIS fell, is not less than one hundred and fifty feet. The unfortunate man who undoubtedly in the darkness stepped off the brink, must have instantly been dashed to pieces, as his body was found awfully mangled and filled with sharp pointed stones. The deceased had been in California for some ten months, residing during the greater portion of the time in Nevada. He was a native of Essex county, N.Y., and about twenty-two years of age. The Times and Transcript is terribly nettled, because the Whig nomination for Judge of the Supreme Court has been tendered to Mr. CHETWOOD. It states that his nomination was brought out by five or six men in San Francisco, and that the Whig State Convention refused to support him for this important office. We would refer the forgetful editors to the proceedings of the convention, where they will find that Mr. C. was supported by delegates from every portion of the State, and that it was not until after a number of ballots that his friends were induced to give in their adhesion to another candidate. We can inform the Times and Transcript that Mr. CHETWOOD is now "brought out" by the whole Whig party, and will not only be supported, but elected by them in November next. Special Correspondence. Change of Weather - Whig Mass Meeting - Slanders of the Times and Transcript - Oregon News - Murder - The Alleghanians - Presentation of a Whig Banner SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 14 We have experienced a most decided change in the weather; the hot sulphurous atmosphere of Friday and Saturday, has given way to the cool and bracing winds indigenous to our hilly city, and notwithstanding they kick up considerable of a dust, yet at the same time they are are acceptable. It is understood that the grand Mass Whig meeting, to be held in your city early next month, will be held for three days, the 7th, 8th and 9th days of the month. There is no doubt that a large delegation from this city will respond to the call of the State Central Committee, which will be made public to-morrow, or next day. The Times and Transcript, feeling sensibly the comparison that has been brought to bear them its candidates by the nomination of CHETWOOD to the Supreme Bench, has commenced a series of slanderous attacks upon that gentleman. As far as the two parties are concerned, the Whigs stand very much in the position of "Catharine Market Joe," in the play of "A Glance at New York," they have been so abused, falsified, vilified, and misrepresented by Democratic cliques and journals, that they have become perfectly callous, therefore gentlemen of the Democratic party "kick away." The steamer Isthmus arrived last evening from Oregon, bringing ten days later news, which however is not important. Considerable sickness is being experienced by the emigration coming into the territory. ADAMS & Co. are building a very fine edifice of brick, at Portland, for a banking house. The Isthmus had bad weather on her upward trip, having been eight days on the passage. A brutal murder was committed in this city yesterday, in a place known as Pleasant Valley - the parties being Mexican. The murdered man received twelve terrible stabs from his antagonist. His name is unknown. A WEALTHY COMPANY - We understand that the amount of taxes paid into the treasury of Solano county, by the Pacific Mail steamship company, is sufficient to defray all the expenses of said county. The assessed value of their property in Benicia, including the vessels in port, amount to $1,300,000. MARRIED In this city, on Wednesday morning, Sept. 15th, 1852, of the typhoid fever, Mr. Samuel FERGUSON, formerly of Johnstown, Felton county, N.Y. In this city, on Tuesday, 14th inst., by the Rev. Mr. BENTON, Mr. D.F. BATCHELDER to Miss Elise STRICKER, both of Placerville, El Dorado county. DIED On Saturday night last of cholera, at Dr. GRATTONís private hospital, Stockton, Jeanette GRATTON, the wife of Dr. GRATTON. This lady was universally esteemed in this community for her rare christian virtues and charities, and her loss will be sincerely lamented in the circle of friends she had drawn around her.