The New York Herald Newspaper, December 8, 1849, Page 1

~ HE NEW YORK HERALD. NO. 5663. IMPORTANT FROM CALIFORNIA. ONH MONTH LATHER, BROUGHT BY THE NTEAMBR CALIFORNIA, AT PANAMA. eer Highly Interesting from the Gold Mines. aes ARRIVAL or THE STEAMSHIP CRESCENT CITY, WIth Over a Million of Dollars in Specie and Gold Bust. THE ADJOURNMENT OF THE CONVENTION. The Constitution of California in Full. Fight Between Col. Weller and Dr. Greaves. NAVAL EXEGUTIONS. STATHD OF BUSINESS. Treaty of Amity and Commerce with the Sandwich Islands. Marriages and Deaths in California, weer SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE FROM ALL PARTS OF THE PACIFIC. Z@xtraordinary Short &e. &e. &e. Passage. The fast and elegant steamship Crescent City, Charles Stoddard, Esq , commander, reached this port yesterday, with the specie and passengers by the steamer California, which arrived at Panama on the 22d ult., with accounts from San Fraucisco to the 2d touching at Mazatlan, where she re- ceived $72,000 in specie, for England ; she also took from San Blas $42,000, for the same des- | tnation. The Crescent City left Chagres on the morning of the 23th, with one hundred and sixty passengers, and nearly one million of dollars in gold dust and specie om freight, and three or four hundred thousand tn passengers hands. The Creecent City left Chagres at 9 o'clock, A.M., on the 28th, arrived at Kingston on the evening of the 20th, and sailed again at 12 M., on | athe Ist inst., thus making the run from the latter place in the extraordinary short time of five days | and twenty hours. ‘The passengers by the Crescent City have made the passage from San Franeiseo to this place in tiventy-fve days running time, or thirtyfive days from port to port. The following are the latest dates brought by the California, viz.:— se eNow, 9 ‘Nov. 14 | Henelulu Nov, 2 Chagres Nov. 13 | Kingston. Nov, 18 Vale The following is the 8 List oF are Howland & A Livingston & Wells Peter Ede wer Cree $li7.e00 20 Os 6m | Amos R. ED . | George A. ¥ “ 38.8090 uw . woo J. Howard Mason & Thompron. .L, & G. Griswold, . ¥, & D, Fowler. . Shermen & Stark hi W_ Clark, Dodge K. & 8. Willette Goodhue & Co. %. Zachrinon. in packages to or ‘ ” $49,122 <+.9919,818 | 400.000 Total on manifert. . In paseengers’ bands. . > a2 rom Califorma by the Cree- cent City 1 highly interesting. Total se seceees ‘The news brought f Among the passengers Steamer Cresent City is the Hon, G. P Minister to his hness the King of the Sandwich Island companied by Alexander Linihiho, heir appa to the Hawaiian throne, aud his brother Lot Ka- | mehambheha. The object of Mr. Jadd’s visit to the United States and Europe 4 period, has reference to the late ovtrages ef the French at the Sandwich Islande, the parnicolars of which appeared in this peper some ti ago. Mr. Dil- | jon, the French Coneu!, as our readers kno came on to this gland since the dispute alluded to, | and took his passag rica, to go on to France, to lay the whole affsir before his govern- ment. Mr. Jadé, with the young Prinees, pare poses going immediately to Washington, thence to London ond Paris. The object of Mr. Judd’s visit at this period has reference to the late French out- rage at the islands. | The American steamer Falcon had arrived from Havana, and had left Chagres for the same port on the night of the 27th ult., with the California mails, to meet the Ohio at the former port. | The reports trom California are encouraging, | the gold was still plentiful, aud those who were able to siand the fatigues of ¢ g it got fairly | reworded for their exertions. The health of the pe nia was generally good; entery prevented many from amount of geld dug out by the miners is computed ; to be about ten dollars per dey. The number of arrivals from Europe and the United States was progressing with much epirit There were atlenst one hundred British vessels harbor of San Francisco on the lst Novem- he Judd, nt ne to A ¢ at the mines of Calitor- but slight attacks of dys- | og. Theaverage | an the ber. The town of San Francisco numbered in popula- | tion at leaet 90,000, and the number of persons | at the mines is confidently set down: at 80,000 | persons % Her Majesty's frigate Amphitrite, Capt. Eden, | was at Mazatlan. ‘The Arverican steamer Alabama was at Chagres, and rail the sume evening with the Crescent City for New Orleans. ‘The British steamer Unicorn, tormerly one of Mr. Cunard’a Liverpool packets, which had been purchased by Mr. Aspinwall, to ran with his Pa cific hone of steamers, arrived at San Francisco on the 27h of October. ‘The British Mail steamer Equador was at Pa- nama, from the coast, but brought no news of any consequence. | last, reached San Dy | indignation among the ofncers of the army and the | commussion. | near € | were being lended, and ir | confidence and firronees in all transactions: | profit are ba MORNING EDITION----SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1849, Mr. E. Conner, of New York, bearer of the treaty of commerce between the U. S. commis- sioner, Mr. Eames, and the Hawaiian govern- ment, is also a passenger, Lieut. Beale, of the navy, with despatches from Commodore Jones, and Lieut. Elliott, came pas- sengers in the Crescent City. A naval execution took place on board the United States fngate Savannah on the 23d of Oc- tober last. The parties were charged with mutiny, and attempting to murder one of the offieers of that vessel. The names of the mutineers were John and William Black, both Englishmen, shipped some time since at Valparaiso in the United States schooner Ewing. There were five persons impli” eated, but the above-named men having confessed the crime and acknowledged their guilt, the other three were sentenced to hard labor for the remuin- der of their term of service, viz: three years. The constitution for the State ot California has been agreed upon in convention. On the 26th and 27th, upwards of thirteen hun- dred persons passed througt#Chagres; every hut and habitation was tenanted by Amerieans, and hundreds were forced to walk. the filthy passages during the nights above mentioned. Four steamers were anchored at one time off the harbor, namely, the Crescent City, Falcon, Alabama, and British mail steamer Avon, also a bark just arrived. On the Pacitic side, at the same time, were the Cali- fornia aud the New Grenada, all with passengers. The Crescent City’s passengers had reached Cruces on the 26th, The Falcon’s had not all lef Chagres, nor had the mail. The mail brought by the Crescent City was des- patched immediately, and would undoubtedly reach Panama before the sailing of the California, ‘There was no sickness on the Isthmus. The U. $. Consul, Mr. Gleason, at Chagres, was ill with the fever, but not dangerously. The news from Panama is down to the evening of the 25th. Some four hundred persons were then waiting the sailing of the California, and two other vessels advertised for San Franciseo. When the passengers by the Crescent City, Alabama, and Falcon shall have reached Panama, the number will be increased to about fourteen hundred. The Creseent City brings ua intelligence from the whole Pacific coast, from Cape Hern to Van Couver’s Island, including the Sandwich Islands. The news from the South Paetfic, with the shipping intelligence, will be found in another column. Col. Collier, the new Collector for the port of San Franvisco, reached San Diego in October, from St. Louis. The captain of the company to which Col. C. was attached, with two of his comrades, were drowned in attempting to ford a river near San Diego. The California reports much sickness at Mazat- lan. The natives were dying off very rapidly from the attacks of bilious intermittent fever, which had assumed all the features of a virulent epidemic. THE DETAILS OF THE NEWS. The Sandwich Island Treaty, &c., &c., &e. The favorite steamer of the Pacific lias, the Cahfornia, T. A Budd, Esq., U. S. N., command- | er, arrived at Panama on the 22d ult; from San | Francisco, Nov. 2, touching, en route, at Monte- rey, San Diego, Mazatlan, San Blas, and Acapulco. The California brought to Panama three han- | dred passengers, and the immense sum of ove mile lion three hundred thousand dollars,in dust and | specie. The actual amount on board, including | parcels in possession of passengers, was estimated | man arrived yesterday from €alifornia, who has at full two millions. ‘This is the largest sum yet | brought by any of the steamers to Panama. Be- | sides this, the California received on board at Mae | zatlan, as freight, seventy thousand dollars for the English West India steamers Col. Webb's party, under command of Mr. Ane | dobon, which left the United States in Janaary previous to the Sth of No- alth, | Colonel Weller, the commissioner on the boun- | snber—all in good hi dary survey, was shot through the leg by Mr Greaves, one of the surveyors, previous to the arri- val of the C, at San !* go, where the Colonel was under medical treatment The disgraceful ren men took place in the had created some autre between these gentle. | cintty of San Diego, and ement, and a good deal of The California paseed, on the Sih of Novem! pe St. Lucas, and withia six miles of th town of San Jose, the steam propellor Hartfore from New York, for San Frane s close in shore, and apparently wooding nved at San Franc’ Pr. st. after arun of twenty-nine days The Pansma arrived on the 5 ‘ three months’ nail.” Great exciter when this fret became known; the i end disappointment which ally growing catet the irregularity of the mails, reached the highest pinua ren the Pagar made her sppearance with seventy-iour bushels of letters. ‘This bad the efiect to leesea the indian tion, but created nulditionnl excitement and jay The Penema would be the first to leave Francisco, Ow1ng to the q by the Unicor, and the ec she weuld probably be kept in reserve. 1; was pow sible that she would be abandoned aa a regular mat! boot on this account, as well as on account of her tardy motion through the water. j Emigration still contiaues, and from all parts of | the world people ving ‘at San Francisco, ot a character Nd reflect honor any State. Fermlies, consisting for the most part of fernales and the childres of the respectable working classes of urope, were arriving daily in la ' bers at the embartados and landings emis tion from China is ulready extensive—almost day, large shiplouds of three industrious pec vediately caught merchants end operators of every class. Emugronte by the overland route were arriv slowly. M had suffered severely nv causes, but more especially tacks of ile duds wi character had been frequent; but of late, Indians in the vicinity of the mines have ase a peaceable character, and we have no new cx record, but the outrage on the late Capt War: an account of which we give fromthe Alia Cu fornia. ‘Lhe utmost activity prevailed in all trade. ‘The speeula either in real merchandee were not eo wild, and the y of the article, ne ery a the he med to anches of te or in | were more market before the entling | of the California, b all the flour and pork, at immense heavy leulations of | a upon the fact, that between the months of January aud June last, the exportations from the Lnited States were limited, aud hence an increase in prices Imported provisiona, with the. bare exeeption of beef, have become scarce and high. Lumber, ihe surest and greatest article of traffic, was yet ia des | mand at high prices. | A rain storm on the %h of October, and one more recent, forced on the occupants of canvass stores and houses, the necessity of providing against Speculators were in th sequence took another rise, and was still high ‘The estimate of the number of houses built in one month in the eity of Franeiseo, 1a three hun dred, or an avernge of ten every day, completed and ready for occ The Sarge | trade on the rivers was immense— some two hundred small vessels are employed in this business. ‘The small steamers built for theriver Sactamen- J State of Affaws—Adyoarnment of the Conveation— | ganization of political parties, epidemics and vat par United States, we here, in the reg —plain and steodfaet republicans—are promul laws, creating liehing cour by «very purpose of framing a Constitution, con been al | out in bold relief only » few days since, for Philadelphia, The steamer McKim, which runs to the city of Sacramento, was doing a jlarge and rs table business fain as ‘he courts of equity (not of flaw) were munda- ted with the most ee cases of litigation, growing out of the looseness of real estate purcha- gen and operations, The punishment of masters ot vessels by passen- geip, baahoms anather prolific source of wrangling and litigation. From all we can learn, no mercy has been shown either agents or captains, where ill treatment has been tound against them. The reatest misery and sufferings have grown out of the abuses and maltreatment of passengers by the masters of vessels—and nine out of ten have been rosecuted, and made to pay dearly for their in- umanity. . Business at the mines has been good, and they have yielded an average of $16 per day. The number at werk through the various diggings, is computed to be about thi itive tho aa ‘There has been a good deal of sickness, gene- rally owing to a wantof proper food, and to ex- posures. The diseases prevalent are fevers and dysentery. |. ‘ ‘The municipal authorities have made provisions for the sick and destitute. The convention, held at Monterey, to frame a rovernment, had adjourned on the 13th of October. ‘he constitution has been submitted to the people of Califorma m the usual form, and was to have been voted for, or against, on the 13th of Novem- ber, at the general election. Taras litical meetings were held at stated nods, through all the cities and towns in the State, at which the utmost unanimity and good feeling existed ; the excitement on these occasions, itis suid, was as great as is apparent at similar gatherings in this city, but no disorder, fighting or iscreditable occurrences marred the proceedings. ‘The new legislature, which would be elected on the 13th of November, was to meet at the town of Pueblo de San Jose, which place has been fixed upon as the capital of the new State. General Persifor Smith was oxsecial from Ore- ‘on about the 10th ult. General Riley was at San Jiego. He had appointed the 29th November as a day of thanksgiving. Thomas Butler Kiog, General Green, of Texas, Colonel Fremont, and other political aspirants an candidates to offices, were at San Francisco. Mr. King has resigned his seat in Congress from Georgia, and is a candidate for the Senate from California. 5. An_ hospital, established upon the liberal princi- ples of New Orleans institutions, was opened about OG 18th of October, by Dectors Stivers and ‘horpe. i The naval station at Benicia, (the incipient Portsmouth,) which proved such a fine bait to Commodore Jones and other naval officers, has fallen through. ‘The speculation would not take, notwithstanding the great warlike encouragement ofiered by the Commodore, A company was formed to supply sl ing with water taken from the springs at Soucilleto, and another enterprise was on foot to supply the city of San Francisco by means of a reservoir placed upon an eminence, and filled by water drawn from wella by steam power. The Treaty with the Sandwich Islands, Charles Eames, Eeq., United States Commis- sioner to the Sandwich Islands, completed h mission in transit. Mr. Judd, Minister to the Hawaiian King, and Mr. E., were for some days m concert of action; the result of which, we learn, has been a complete and satisfactory treaty of amity and commerce between the twe govern- ments. The documents will be to-day in Washing- ton. The commercial! regulations embraced in the treaty are of the most liberal character, and espe- cial reference is made to the encouragement of a line of mail steamers from San Francisco to the Eastladies, touching at the Islands. A gentle- the speedy consumation of this project in view. | The feeling, among merchants and others on thi point, is most favorable. Emigration. ng the month of October the arrivals of emi- t this port, by eva, have been as Toll + 2685 lau £000 De grants Americens..... Foreigners. . . | well caleulated for the ri A meeting was called in Portemouth Square, pur- suant to a petition or deeree signed by a number of persons, with a view to ascertain the strength of the feelingin Mr. King’s favor. The flair, however, was not at all satisfactory to the friends of that gentleman—the attendance slim, and the speeking meagre—enthusiasm, none. Col. Fremont, who is on both tckets for Senator, will, of course, be sent to Washingten from this district. M although solemaly abjuring all connection with party, will get the nomination on the whig ticket with Mr. Fremont. Dr. Gwinn, Mr. Halleck, Gen. Green, and a host of others are irants from the opposite party. For the office of Governor we have the names of Peter H. Bur- nett, W. M. Stewart, W.S. Sherwood ; for Lieut. Governor, J. McDougal, F. J. Lippitt; for Repre- sentatives to Congress Edward Gilbert, (editor of the Alta Califorma), Rodney M. Price, (purser in the navy and naval store keeper for this place), G. W. betiy oe L. Dent, W. Shannon, and others. The ge ave not publicly made their choice for the above offices. : The next subject in importance to the elections which take place on the 13th inst., is the irre lanty of the mails. The murmuring upon hi score is deep and universal; nothing can excee the feeling of disappomtment and chagrin, in all classes, that succeeds the arrival of the steamers. Since July last, up to the arrival of the Panama, a few days ago, no mails were received, and our ad- vices from the States were only such as were brought by private hands, by the Empire and Crescent City. Itis greatly regretted arrangement could not have been made for the transportation of the mails by these steamers until those of Mr. Law were ready. A public meeung was called, a few nights since, to consider the sub- ect and devise means to insure more regularity. The managers of the Atlantic steamers have been severely censured. No blame what ed to the line on this side, as it performs now more than the duty required by law, and has been at much inconvemence and outlay in Waiting at Panama for the arrival of the mails from your side. For the past three months, the steamers have been detained at ‘that port for many days, at heavy expenses, and incurring the displeasure of hundreds of anxious persans, for no other reason than to obtain a mail frem the United States. The Pacific mail line is now complete, and will pertorm a semi-monthly trip trom Panama to San Francisco. The Unicorn, the fourth vessel in the service, arrived here on the 27th ult., with the American colors flying at the peak ; an event that has since given no little | matter fordiscussion. Her right, as a foreign bot- tom, to display the American flag seems to be de- | nied, und on all sides the propriety is stoutly ques- tioned ; and indeed, itis rumored that Commo- dore Jones intends making an examination to- morrow, and if the authority 19 not satistactory, she will undoubtedly falla prize to the squadron. It is asserted, that she is as fair a prize as was ever captured by a national vessel. The affair upon @ proper examination, may umeunt to nothing, as it i# poesible she has a temporary privilege from government. The long looked for steamer Senator arrived on the 25th, in a passage of twenty-one days from Panama, beating the Unicorn seven days. Mer owners are about to place her on the route to Sa- cramento City, for which place she will leave in the course of the coming week. She is in perfect order, and will prove a rich speculation to those interested. The travel and trade to and from Sa- cramento are immense, and now more than one hundred vessels ure regularly and profitably em- ployed between the two ploces. the Senator is self a stinging thorn to the miserable apologies, for steamers that are now in the exclusive rank of passenger conveyance. There have been a few emull steamers, those I have alluded to above, constructed here, which will remain, as long as they exist above water, monuments of she igno- Trance and stupidity of the constractors or pro) tors, They are less celeulated for the navigation of the Sacramento and the Bey of San Francisco, than a Whitehall bout 1 suited to traverse the Atlant Three or four good boats, such as run in the habor of New York, placed upon the vari- | ous routes to Sacramenio, Stockton, San Joaqu San Pueblo de Lou, or to Sonoma, would more in one month, than could be produ in one year at home. The propeller MeKicn from New Orleons, wes purchased on ber arrival by parties here at the extravagant sum of sixty-five thousand dollars, and is now running successfully between Sen Francisco and Sacramento, realizing 70 monthly than the cost of vessel. [fer hest ” time in making the run, whieh is estimated at oo about 114 miles, was performed in seventeen tossesess 110 | hours. Liere is a capital chance tor two or three f the months of August, September | fing» Any oats in oF about d October, 15,677 organizations. compored of th b State's popuintion. are daity pouring tt ‘olifornta, and we havo already lie woe nod capability, truly as Inany of the States of the Atlantic cide. nia ~ la Catir | Englieh, Frenoh, Spanicoh, lortuguere, Ita Foreign Pings In the Rarbor. | | | burgh, Bremen, Belevan, New Greaadian D teh, Old hh. Ob Fquadorien, Haneverian, Norwegiat, Hawstian, Tubi- | tiem Preveliing Winds for the Month of Octener. . - : * #6 tone of shipping sailed from this port the last ch 615 tons { ehipplog arrived this last month, +bipping im port, month ea ding Ooto- 13 toms. Our San Franeiseo Correspondence, San Francisco, Nov. 1, 1349, Pelitiis—The Nae Democrote—Ca The Constitution—Whigs and for Offices—Mail Ar- | Steamers— Arrival of rangements vie the Senetor and Unicorn—Proballe Seizure of the Latter River Navigetion—Sandwvh Aland Treaty—Naval Executions—Naval Mattera— Coast Survew— Marine Neows— State of Sociel y— Trade, &t., Gt, He. Wiiile fancy balls, projected revolutions, d « are feasting the morbid appetites of th hed and aristocratic people of the puting sireles, (social and politi of equity and justice, and Sosuring, c tranquillity, and ) eatab- the b. ose ngs of civil, religions and political hberty. | The State Convention held at Monterey for the ted its labors on the 13th ult., the result of which, having eady published, will be submitted to the people oa the 13th inst., to be voted for or agamet. ‘The document has evideatly met with universal approbation, and its adoption, at the election, it 1s fair to preewrme, wall be almost ! herewith forward you a copy, from whieh you are at hberty to select such passages as you may think | unanimous of interest. Since the adjournment of the convention, and | the arrival of ita members among aa, the political | cauldron has been fuming with the fierceness o! Etna, and the watchword of the * Union of fornians for the sake of California,” the pet with the “old” inhabitants and their nde, has been most precipitously transformed to those of whige, lecofoces, old bunkers, and The feeling of interest which stood the as suddenly | politieal barnburners. welfare and rise of California, emerged into the hypocritical vortex © parties. Among the ranke of the prejndices of old Tarot and fast swallowing the ois triotiem of the ¢ orman. Old party strifes, hum- | bugei and coptentions, are as rife romi pent in the movements of the primrtive | California, ae they ever were within the walls of | the old headquarters of democrecy in New York. } Its impormble that the feeling should be other | while so many hackneyed 1 worn out | mocrat party, the das reuses of | future losses. The darwage done to merchandise | wir by the rain was very heavy, being estima’ t | poliricians from the Exet and. Soath, are here, | $100,000 in San Prane'sco alone. Lumber un con- | prowling about like the wolfish and cunning Quiota, breeding contamination wherever their exhalation ia felt, and seeking only their own aggrandiae~ ment at the expense of the patriotiem and purity of the citizens of the new State. We have had a number of political meetings since the aaliing of the last eteamer—all demoera- tic—the whigs not yet moving; but are cautiously and with much discretion, “lying low” for their We ave glad to state that the Isthmus was per- fectly free (rom sickneee. to, have proved failures, although the eredit of be- | ing first in the field, and the firvt to fail, belongs to opportonity. The only demonstrat) them, or thatis at all identified with the pa that in favor of Thos. Butler King, as Senato,. og New | than a ship's boat, was put ons of the West | : | promoted, were they lying in ord | expiation of an outrage: i re. the river than eight hours. A small iron steamer, called ti the rua in less Mint, not larger ether here for the river pavigation, bat, upon triel, was found to be acomplete failure, inasmuch as ehe cannot carry twelve persons, and is liable to be ewaraped in the during apy of the moderate afternoon blows. Mr. Judd, Prime er to the King of the Iwich Island mpanied by two prinees, his Royal High ac OF sons ¢ ness, arrived here a few weeks sup on their way to Washington, Loa- don, and Paris. They leave to-day m the steamer California... Mr. Judd has in his possession crush- ing documents in relation to the lete singular at- k of the Preneh Admiral upon the nai M His visit to the United St isibly for the purpose of placing the matter before the reapective goveraments, but the educstion of the two young chiefs is, in my opinion, the paramount object. Looking over a file of Sandwich Island papers, I found what is | b fair version of the whole trar , which I forward for the benefit Jers. of € les Eames, Eeq., U. S. Commissioner to the Sandwich L-liads, who has been detained here for me than a month, awai the plea ure of our specolating Commedore to torward him to his desun has now toi tely settled the | vas commissioned. Mr. Judd, ity, and wih full diplomatic has been treating with Mr. Tue result of ness for which he in his offieval ca powers from the k { ames during the past wo weeks. their joint labors is a complete and satisfactory erween th two rae ington. 1 did not beara the principal p reason to agsert that our govern , through ames, bee eeenred ail, if not more, than it to hope tor. Mr. bi. remains here for , and as his official business is at an te, which will Wash- nta, but I ead, of course his resignation follows. Aa investigation of the ofluirs or business of the cortom boure has been ge on for some tune, new collector, Mr. The net accounts by order of Gen. Riley. Th Collyer, has not yet arrived report him at San Diege vith wae at ¢ ‘on, On lis way hither — Smith were at Sun I era of the coast survey, ¥ States in Jenoary ore etl state of state quo, enjoying, as Mr. ¢ say, a “glorioug wiege ol inactivity ot the orginal or hae been done yet in pr ders. Some surveve, of o rt two of the bay# or wonds in the inity, have beew made on private account. If the department understood the interests of the nd its officers, every ship lying here would itheri coast, where navy be recalled or ordered to th pee w® much n and where tempt 7 hing.” The dienity of the navy— . wed even ureiulures, a9 far as relates . would b or New York. ‘The naval executions whieh togk place in the harbor on the 23d ult., w a sod and impressive apectacie— eed, from the ancholy reflect that several bnman beings were, in on stant, in ail the vigor of manhood, to be lannched into ¢ ernity, in is ofience ngamst the laws for the better government of the Navy—mu 8 conduct, and attempting the life of an officer ; im- pressive, {rem the manner ia which naval execs tione ate conducted. ‘the circamstances which led to the rewult are as followe—Ua the night of the 15th of September jest, as law Midshipman William Gibson, attached to the | schooner Ewiog, was returning trom th that veseel, in charge of of her boats, sisting of John Llack, Peter Black, Henry rfeid, Wilham Hall, end Jonathan Biddy, on (tard to be all Eng!i=hmen)—rose vpon Mr Grbson, and, efter » struggle, threw him overboard. ‘They then. made for the shore, and, for the time, ercaped. Mr Gibsow was in the water for some time, bat_was fortonaiely reecned by a parsing boat, but ina state of such great exhaustion that for for ys his life wes desparred of. Assogn as the affair beeame known, sone parties of ofieers of the navy end army, and citizens, started in par+ avit of the culprite, and alter » aearch of four or five daye, they were apprehended at “* New York on the Pacific,” by the members ef a mins ing company, and bended over to the o cers of the Ewing, from which vessel they were traveferred to the frigate Savannah, On the 8th ult., a general court-martial was con ~ er Con at some | ever is uttach- | er, and will prove her- , vened on board the Warren, consisting of thirteen officers, of which Capt. P. F. Voorhies, of the Sa- vannah, Was president, and Mr. Norris, of San Francisco, Judge Advocate. After a patient and impartial trial, which lasted several days, they were severally found guilty and sentenced to be hung. Tuesday, the 23d day of October, at eleven o'clock, A. M., was fixed upon as the time for the execution, and accordingly all the arrangements were made, and the necessary orders issued pre- viously by Com. Jones, and was to have been as follows: John Black to be hung at the fore-yard- arm of the wing; Peter Black on board the St. Mary’s ; Henry Cummerford on board the War- ren; William Halland Jonathan Biddy on board the Savannah—the vessels of the squadzon gong nated, as also the storeship Fredonia and South- ampton, lying in full view of the town, and the large fleet of merchantmen who now occupy the harbor of San Francisco. § On the morn- ing of the 23d, a few hours before the execu- tions were to take place, the two Blacks made a voluntary eenfession, in order to exculpate the other three from the same degree of guilt as them- selves, inasmuch that previous to committing the | act for which they were to sufler, there bach anes | no concert of action between them; that they two | alone had planned the affair. In consequence of this | declaration, and the recommendation of the Court, | Com Jones commuted the sentence of Cummerford, Hall and Biddy to 100 lashes each on the bare back, with hard labor and solitary confinement al- ternately, for the remainder of their term of service, (nearly three years.) Soon after ten o'clock, a guard of marines, under command of Lieut. Reynolds, Provost Marshal, left the frigate | with John Black, for the Ewing, while prepara- | tions-were made on board the Savannah for the execution of his namesake, Peter. Shortly after | eleven o’elock, a gun was fired from the flag ship, and the preparatory signal, ‘* Prepare to execute the sentence of the court martial,” was dinplayed | —the two prisoners dressed in white, were then | placed on a staging below the yard, and a few mi- hutes after the stop of the “yellow flag,” at the | fore was broke, and a gun fired almost instanta- | neously from each vessel, when the two maletue- | tors were seen by the vast asseniblage suspended | from the fore yard-arm of the Savaiair and Ewing. After hanging tor upwards of half an | hour, the bodies were taken down, and subse- quently interred on the island of Yerba Bue: The aflair throughout, and since the commence- ment of the tna], created much inte: | as Commodore Jones’s right to pun' ers within the territory of the United States was thought by many as problematical. The wreck of the United States steamer Edith, | lost near Cape St. Lucas, is oflered for sale by the navy sgent, as she now lies on the rocks, near Point Conception. The steam propeller Uartford, from New York for San Francisco, itis said, was at Acapulco on the 18¢h ult. The bark Ella Frances, forty days from Panama, with upwards of one hundred passengers, was also at Acapulco, short of water and provision: | The whale ship Nianue, of 600 tons, was pur- chased by Messrs. Whitehead & Ward, and, un- der the svperintendence of Mr. William Noyes, formerly first officer of the steamship Washington, lightened, with the eid of casks and spars, an placed high up upon the flats, 1a the very centre of thistown. Mr. Noyes bro nt her through four feet of water, which, at flood tide, is the Wlahoet | point it reaches where she now stands, a monu- meant to the enterprise of the owners and the o; rator. When the plan of the city is completes and they ere now at work filling In the water lots in the vicinity—this vessel will, for years to come, serve as an object of the greatest curiosity. She is now housed over, and used asa storehouse. A capital one she makes. Many other vessels are being stripped, and brenght wittin bridging dis- tence, and used torgvarious purposes. The arrival of ships trom the Unued States have been linated, but we hove large numbers from Acia, the coast, and other countries. The number ot Chinese arriving is enormous ; they are brought in cargoes by English veesels, aud sold as servants to the highest bidder, on the Cooley rystem—a shade lees than absolute slavery. This is a specie of trade that will soon get its quietus from the te government. i We are now fast getting to be a quiet, law- abiding, social and domestic people—enjying our sotrérs, concerts, theatrical perform: balls, and tea parties, with a sprinkling now and thea of crim. cons., divorees, and elopements. Our fash+ ionable circles have on recently by the ance of some five er six cel ladies among them, to say nothing of the almost daily additions from the States, Mexico, Peru, Chili, aud ¢ven Europe. Buite an interesting fite was eiven by young Leach, of the American Hotel, a few evenings sinee, on the oceasion of the open- ing of that b It would have non-p'ussed your eecom * repo to have di juetice to the beauty, costume, or manners of the fair ones aseembled—and such a crowd! Where did they come from? No one can ere them ia the busy streets through the day, but, like stars at night, their seintillations brighten and enliven the vat femmon. There 1s a degree of conflence and certainty in business operations, that has been unknown here- tofore in San Francisco ; things are gradaally set thing down toa proper standard, and affairs in all branches of trade are fost assuming a healthy ap- pear The bubble, if it can be #0 called, from all appearances, will outlive its woret enemies, Flour and produce are going up. Those who have it on hand, calculating npoo a limited ehip- ment from the United States, have advanced the prices: r ealenlations are right, and I have not the least doubt of a sull greater rise in articles | oduce, | ¢ people at the mines are still making a fair age—esy from fifteen to twenty dollars per —some sickness is reported through ithe dig- 4, resembling dysentery, from which many, | {the mixed and micerable followers of through carelessness, sufier death. An hospital | for the reception of the sick of all classes and dis- has been eetablished by doctors Stirers and P om the principles of the medical institu. 3 of New Orleans 4 just proportion of encourngement. ‘The California sails to-night, with over one mil- lien in duet and ¢ on board, regularly manitest- —but, were the trath known a to the actual ount In porsession of paeeengers and others, the | sum, | om sure, would fall but littl short of double the emount on her manifest. She carries back | some three hundred ngers, a listof whom has been published, but not complete. The majority have done weil. Lieut. Beall, of the navy, is among the number, with despatches from Commo- dove Jones. He leaves the ship at Acapuleo, and proceeds overland, via Vera Cruz Inte ttt from tne Gold (Prom the Alta California, Oct. Sweutock’s Diee@incs, Manivosa, 27. Pernt me te impose on your valuable time, and occupy a emall place in your excellent paper, by stating in bebait of myself and comrades our many grievances. We wanta post office at this point, though it be the most remote point of the Piacer,* aud we wich your influence to be exerted im the matter, for which we will certainly reader you aa equivalent in Mariposa gold, or in any other way you may desire be 4 he We muster about 1,509 strong ia thia neighbor. hood, ond 500 Teaians are daily expected. Our merebents would willingly contract with th at office agents for the establishment of a maii route between this and San Franciseo This, Mr. Editor, is unquestionably the for “big chunks,” but let me instruct you con- cerning there diggings They were discovered two or three months since, by aman named Sher. lock, who, with a company of seventy Mexicans, shares. The work va- where. La eight days, | anda of pure gold. Aad last week tw ook out in two days 2) pounds from aspot near my camp, Sherlock has into the mountains, no one knows where, have elected anew Alcalde, n y installation into office, tesued an order for all ans to decamp, wh they did forthwith They have so tar received | 0 with us, es we three men took ont 5 We # we can easily make i all intend to winter her comiortable quarters. )This place is distant IL miles from Fremont’s diecovery, and is r the | richer of the two deposits. Many la have been reeently found here, averag to eght pounds, pure g The tierst usually are worth about fifty cent you per: | ceive this is the region of “ big lumps. Oar correspondent is no more clamorous for mail communication with the civilized world, than the re. sidents of tem comet cities, provided for by United States eontract, and @ line ofocoan steamers, To the gold digger, in his industrious pursuit, the month of Uetober hae preved more satisfactory “pay” then tothe politician. The ship-loads of emigrants landed at this port have, with better dis crevion than generally exercised heretotore, pushed on for the mining country, where, We are credibl; i formed, they ore for the most part prosperous contentec vea of individual success am thy m are by no ween rare. ‘The ith of the mining community was never better than at this time. The sickly seasoa has Legoon, near ihe on Sw th Cet., by becoming entaag in th the bottom, while own ta for’ a wil | which had beca shot by a comrade on the ® Founn Dy ~The body of a maa | and tall enjoyr pemed and the heat of the Sacramento and San in valleys greatly abated. Winter quarters are spoken of, anda mountain home will be the choice of nearly ali now engaged im mining. The Placer Times of October 12, says “We have seen several from the mines durin: the past week—-some of them with a bag full a dust, while others were not troubled with any- thing heavy. The following letter from a friend will give our readers @ common sense view of mining and miners in all sections of the placer, although written on the Middle Fork and dated Sranisu Bar, Oct. 10, 1849. Mx. Eprror:—There has been and always will be a great disparity in Uae products of labor in the mines of this country, aad this disparity is often a cause of much trouble and uneasiness on the part of miners, and more particularly new beginners. For imstance ; a man comes here and locates him- self; he commences operations; after remaining here some two or three weeks, he becomes initia- ted and makes his $12 0 unceaday. Bat Just at this juncture of aflatra a report comes from the North or South Forks, or somewhere else, that people are taking out trom three or six ounces aday on some other stream. This causes at once a diseatisfaetion on the part of the new comer (old miners are not so easily led away);he makesa comparison and says to himself, “I am not gong to work for an ounce a day when other people are making tnree or four ounces,” and he imme- diately packs up and is off for the better diggings. He arrives at his place of destination, and finds, to his astonishment, that he is worse off than when he started, beside losing a week’s tme. judging from what can learn, I think there is litle difference as to the richness of the three Forks, the North, Middle and South. ‘They all have proved prolilic. | think the North (being the nearest your city) has been the most worked. Since I have been on the Spanish Bar (now about three monthe,) there has been an immense amouat of money taken out. Damming parties have done the best y going into the bed of the strean, yet many dams have proved failures; some companies have taken out over a hundred dollars @ day ior several weeks, but these things are not common. You are undoubtedly annoyed every day by new comers who wish to know the richest place. Give no advice at all; if my brother were to come to me with the inquiry, | could not give him the information required. Some do well everywhere, and others are equally unfortunate. Miners here are thinking about going into winter quarters; the nights are quite chilly, and every ope is anxious to get breakfast, for the sake of being ia the vici- nity of the fi I know nothing of the dry dig- ‘ngs, not having seen the elephaat that way. la aste, yours truly, Moxmon [sianp, Cat.., Sept. 29, 1849, To Tux Eprrons or rum Paciic New Gentiemex-—1 communicate, for iasertion in your paper, the death of Augusius Bixby, of News ton, Mass., and » member of the Wachusett come pany here. He died on the 28th, at 7 o'clock, A. 1., aged 26 years, after a sickness of two weeka of the dysentery and typhoid fever, having been in the country bui a short time and worked but one week in the mines, then doing but litle, as is gen- erally the case with new beginners. We have nothing of especial interest from the placer, this week.—Placer Times, Oct. 20. We have heard of many stories of great luck, im certain sections of the placer, within the past week or two, but scarcely think them worthy of giving particulars. As nearas we can get at it, miners are dOing a fair business on most of the streama, and itis said that the drv diggings, in ma ay parts of the mining region, will he ‘found quite_as pro- fitable us last winter.—Placer Times, Oct. 27. The Overland Eamigration, [From the Paciic News, | We have news from the plains by persons who crossed the Sierra Nevada on the 15th inst, hav- ing leftthe Missouri river on the 2ist of Jone. This party came in the rear of the great sprag emigration to California, and suffered feo of anin and outfits, beeause of the ¢ te. of forage on all the travelled routes here persone represent, that the em gration had about revched the foot of the mountains oa the “ Carson” route, by the sink of Mary’s river ; and that near the summit of the range oa this they met relief ruins going forward to + might need assistance. Most of the be gration were induced, by representations on the way, to take the * Lawson route,” which diver- ges to the north, en the right, about 80 mules at the sink of Maty’s river ; but subsequent infora tion saye, that they have tal « diff road, and will be trom one riving at the settlements. There has been e toil, from losing tear the people were pretty wel Ms, and there were no partieulur maladies among them, with the exception of glimht sy 4 among some trains ri Vv way above, that relief bas also and that there 1 calamity befalling Lawson rent nO apprehension of any eri any person or party on thet road Oa the 13th in nimenc Sierra Nevada m thas season. It fell 1owing on the pth of eight the ¢ about ral John Wilson, of Mo., navy aeent for this port, with his family, will be here in the course of two or three weeks. He bas come overland, and is moet probably on this side of the mountains at present. City News of San Mm, om the Alta Calif. Cenrsri ALKs— Three Chinese ladies of rak arr Laglish bark Helen Stewart, on the 29 Servs Cuaron —Captain George H. Habert- fon wae errested and held to bail last week on @ charge of perjury. nox Suvt.--The cave of J. C. Premont va. the rfl estate, involving a considered! ney, and many important legal peine was taken up before Judge Geary yesterday, aud Wm J. Aukrim, James A. Beosov, Thomas Per- | kins, jun., Richard B. Bader, Thomas Maynard, J. M. Resse. wh interest is telt in the result of the trial Granp I we could nor pearing age him, and he was due —Jobn ©. Bumpus, of New Orleans, (and a native of V a.) was drowned att tained to be late master of the Cains wae picked np inthe Bay on Wedoeada ve not learned the particulars, ; Rowe's Or © Ciners ave publie nt sort at leng ' at Monday evenin to a crowed the performances g ple from the frequent and borsts of applanse with which the ment Was greeted. 7 though comtor 1om twelve ats ofa pit with private frapted and ts, altogether, degree ef co t which we were quite unprepar te meet. Tur Protaneioma Mixsrnets.—Our citizens have been fave tutiag the week, by tee trul¢ amusing concerts of the above band. They are eight in number, oad their songs and insteameate are we ted. Three times a week they give concerts, at the Belle Union Hall BaNpsome r J. Hampden Williams, one of the gers ot the Two Friends, obtained a verdict for $1,500 egaiast Seronton & Smith, the charterers of the veese! The grounds aile in his complaint w hat the charter party had eel oat t ia Panama with the o Tetandiog th el was only to take 120 persons, it but that 178 ns Were put oF the vessel was so crowded that rw board, and that ay of the pas sengers had to sleep on the deck during the whole trip, exposed to all kinds of weather—that the food was of the coarsest kind, and the passengers were compelled to hive npon rt vance of water and provisions during the whole voyage, and that fin:‘ty provisions becem= #0 searce that many of the pace ers abandon the veawel and travelled to this place by land — The cause was tried by a jury, before the Hon. Wm. B. Almond INTERESTING TO MERCHANTS. A case was recently decided in the Court of Firs: Instance, which cannot ful to interest mere chants and consignees generally. The piaiatiily shipped goods at New York for this port, amd not a es ee