The New York Herald Newspaper, September 5, 1851, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE PROMETHETS, MBVENTEEN DAYS LATBR PROM CALIFORNEA. THE NICARAGUA ROUTE. BUSINESS PROSPECTS. TRADE WITH CHINA. The Collector of San Francisco and the Merchants. Phe Vigilance Committee and the Governor, MINING INTELLIGENCE. SLAUGHTER OF INDIANS AT SHASTA, MARRIAGES AND DEATAS, The steamship Promethus, Captain Churchill, arrived at her dock yesterday morning at o'clock. She anchored off Quarantine last night at ML o'clock. The P. haz advices from San Francisco to Au- guct 2, and brings $350,000 and the passengers by thesteamship Independence from San Francisco (275 ig number), whieh left San Francisco on the 31st Jaly and arrived a: San Juan del Sud on the 16th of August. The steamship Oregon, which left San Francisco the 16th, mak- | of the export duties, and, to avoid it ne send ing the ran in fourtcen time. Notwith- | their ships to Hong kong, whioh is Beit port, standing the excess of on » the bringing the goede Canton or WI was very pleasant one, ae ” . 1m at fong-K ong. ‘Then they preze gentlemanly captain, exerted themselves to add, if pons | themselves at the custom house here, and when the pt a thenks, oma thom and | @ppraigers were about to add the four per gent ex- nding the new route to communig | port duties to the value, claimed that it could uot ty. The to Virgim Bay, over , was | be done—the gooda came from long Xong, a Bi- a im time, to San Juan del Norte, Another :veamer had ju been completed, torum om the river below the a which are a small obstacle to be overcome, after which she may navigate the river from the mouth to its source. ‘The Prometheus, Capt Churchill, arrived at San Juan, August 24, and left on the morning of the 20th, with two hundred and forty passengers. Passed the brig J. Holt, of Alur, with fore and maintopmost zone, and a small piece of canvass aft—all hands had probably been taken off, as her boats were gone,and the water covered her decks us; but finding no one on board she proceeded on her course again. iD, At San Juan, August 20, of typhoid fever, Mr. Samuel of Freetown, Mass. 2 " On board the Prometheus, August 26th, of neumonia, Mr, Jobn Frigate, of Lewis county, Missouri. August 22d, of fever, Mr. John Maynard. He came to San Juan one month since, in the steamship Prometheus, and fi his means insutiicient to proceed further, he Col to proceed to California in a few weeks. He leaves a wite and two children, but in what part of the coumtry could mot be ascertained. was stroncly suspected, and without delay aa in- vestigation was made The prisoner was thought guilty, end to test this, he was tain to the woods, guard- ed by to Californians, and followed by a third, along coil of rope. Arriving at the thrown over the branch of a tree, and the prisoner was promised a release, if Le would inform where the money could be found thing relating to it, whatever, b contess, his eyes were blinded, his hands f was told he bad but stx minutes t | he chose. He knelt for a mom ed where his relatives resided, he St never know what bas token en om the 2d ult., overtook the Independence at Aca- x ave to- } day » rope was drawn tight, and after jer Baloo. Nee eee , | for times, the deed wat done, and the nian was released, The news from California is » a very import- | as he was to be immocemt. As the rope was ant character; nothing of moment having transpired | f 6 or eran io Somes Be since the sailing of the steamer of the 16th July. have another Inter he aes The Prometheus brings the passengers from the steamship Independence, which left San Franciseo on the evening of the 3st of July, and arrived San Jue del sud on the ivth o! stopping at San Diege and Acapulco, 275 passen- gers, and $50,000 on freight. We are indebted to Gregory’s C Elliott’s Express, for fall files of Ca and for our correspondence. Annexed are the PASSENGERS BY THE Capt RW Welch, som, ZH Robinson, C JS Custias, Gee ng and to n, Stephen M SE Hart, Rev ‘Ovington, E Jeba T Do John R Welch, 1” Roy, Leaad Bs), S Gat JW Bancook, EB CL Drewry, A wn it heeler, E'S Daniel Carrey, Lu Bergden, Iseco mae, Fite Lamb, KA Briton, Hu C Hollenbeck, ERay, 3 1. C H Burnham George Morr rside, avid Bus- al He , John Rub 7, EB r, , & fi per, J B Mordton, 0 A Bridgford, M Huli, DC Reltts, DN Simonson, W Ramsay, HD 4 @ Bara, J Elliot, W McDousld, T IVE Powers, J Burg: i JB Perkins, Jobn Harris, © ‘Ai FF Ripley, J Town, T B Norton a rard, dz, Thomas Cooper Wate, 1B E ry by W B Wilson, J Trusdell, ze Irving. F Pratl, Bockmer, B Milam, KM Howley, John G: pt Le ther Puller, HY Mycr, Taos Joes, W Ford— THE FOLLOWING MANIFE: or THE rRoMETAY Thompson & Hitehcoe! : vox, A.M. C. Wood... . l box In bands cf pucsen gers * ‘The following is the report.of the Indepen: ‘We left Ban Francisco July ‘lst, at 4PM i Comunitiee of San Francitco. at three « same day. presented ( aptain Wakeman, banner, with the motto *\ igilance’ star, and the motte cf the State, “Eureka.” un- derveath. The fisg is of red satin, about fifteen feet Jong. It is evid by old Californians, that there never ‘was before #0 creat 4 crowd as that which witnessed the jure of tue Independence trom San Francisco. shteen hours out, spoke the Tennessee, C: ‘Totten, which steamer had satied from San Francise: the 25th, to the relief of the Union Diego. Touched at San Diego on t Topographica! fnginver leave on the Oregor ; ail oe the I over @ oa wreeked near San the Ore. | i from San Francisco ; fair wee } We lett the Van: Annexed is a lis f the harbor of \ewis Rains, HLA. Pale, Wiliam H. Joliste Robert Leitch. Wiltiam H. Sheil-y. W. 8. Nathan. UARBOR PILOT Thomas C. Bunker FILO ROAT R. BR. KON TER ard Palmer } FILOT ROAT BRA Joan De Peter MeNally, | William ©. Amos BF. Ford, Jobn Ingram, William Neal Willies Koger William Lo William I. Folger Hl. Van Neas, JL, Fowler Items of News from Callfornta We are indebted to Mr. Hiliott, of Eulictt’s F the following interesting diary wat me Business in fan rane + brightening merchants and oiber hing daunt even four, are again g, unt almost its origina! appearance seroitted. The Vigo bat work so thoroughly forms, bas been grva cells of the City Ir steamer Confide ner had ber Sacremento. having bern run int 1a eollirions often wh The agriculture of ( wealth to all who per damemorith which thelr encoursge the saw, and contel: y year, produced th ound aquirrels wn coy) ithe Welbity «1 Sa _ they | have destroyed ent burcos three to rix inche fi vegetation that is fou merous a¢ the dei Left Sacran and arrived « miners her the higher ‘» washing it. This 7 Beal's Bor found last year Waburn. miner bere wa or bank dig. ehared to th & rok twenty feet deep which wets fr ite matural courte. and may mpare), in this new country, where faviiitier act mane ate limited, to the great mprevemen: ng « Lowell, of tut the Hovsic, At Mormon Island « contiqucus fine of race hes been constencted. for one iniie, at an ostimated cost 48, 100,000. At Negro. Bar the river is turned for one mile. The method °f keeping the bed of the river dey, pon is by { the Archimedian pumy F the f At Salmon Falls the river runs through a deep chacin in the rock and abore this it hos and will doubtless prove it ip the opinion ¢f mine be taltem out this reason | SKETCURS OF TRAVEL FRANC ‘The Independence punared and axty passengers. elevo at 4 SF. Mh, on ae Dt; bouched #4 San Dirge, comnd wt Aow turned by dam ment. Iniced erally that more gold will ever before ny THE ¥ } they should be arrest of mthe Fi he ringleaders in ish brig of war. theas out their The Governor and the Vigilance Committee. heen forme assume powers inconsistent with the exis serious apprehensions are entertained o! The Prometheus’ engine was stopped as she drifted past, tish port, and not» ©hinese port. True, says the Collector, it is a British port, the four per con cannot be added :o the value of the goods exported thence. But inthe same vessels there were teas, also Imported from Hong-Kong. ~chedule I, of the tariff of 184, (of goods exempt from daty,) says, * Coffee and tea, when imported direct from | the place of their growch or production, in Ameri- can vessels. orm foreign vessels entitied by rect | procal treaties to be exempt from disorimmating luties, tonnage, and other charges,” are free from duty; and section 3 of the taril says, all g | wares, and merchandise not speciatly provided for, are to paya daty of twenty percent. ‘Tea, thea, imported from any other country than that of its | growth or production, nos being specially pro- vided for, is subject t> hic! of toe pe cent | ace ly. ‘Very well,” saya Mr. Coilector, eye fag isa “beitiah port in a Brith Peo- work on the company's steamer, intending | During our stay at San Juan del Norte, carpet bag | island—and as much a part of China as th: ry Pisce Py u- | dutiable tion, the noose was made and edjusted, the other end | it was a yunce: and tea, not being grown or produced there when imported from thence, is lable toa dary of | twenty per cent. Let it be colieced.” “Oh! | says che importer, but Hoog Kong, though ao isiand, is stil a part of China—it is Le ar containing $1,009 was stolen from Seiden Goff, of New rallones are a part of California; it 18 only @ short York. A waiter in the hotel, who had be mm out of Realt! distance from Wham peas and our tea 1s free from and was seen several times near the missing mo duty, ag it ie importe from China. ‘ Now,’ says the Collector, “you cannot make both ‘dsh and flesh’ of this Hong Kong. To eseape the addition of the Chinese export duty to the cost of your oods from Hong Kong, you claimed that ritish port,in @ British Province. I ad- i mitted the truth of your position. 0 Francisco | was, previous to the cession to the Uniced S:ates, Tle solemnly afticmed that be koew vo- | a Mexican port; siuce tha: time it has b-on an ‘Thinking be would yet | Ameriean port, and is now. So Hong Kong was once a Chinese port; but ance its cess.ou to Great | Britain, it has been, and is now,a@ British port. ; Youacknewledge yoursetves that no tea is pro- duced in that lritish Province. The tariff says ing ita | that tea imported from any other p ace than that of its growth or production, must pay a duty of twenty per cent; and [ have nothing to do but exe- cute the law as ! find it.” If-reupon the umporters set up agreat burra, and abuse the Collector for performing bis duty, when they themse ves, in their | eagerness to escape out of the fryingpan, have | jumped into the fire; and does any one pity them ? |“ ‘The surveying corps which arrived here on the ISth June, in the steamer Oregon, under direction | | of Hon. 8. D. King, Surveyor General, have com- | menced their labors, a detachment of fifteen men having left the city under the charge of the Veputy Surveyor, Mr. Leander Ransom, and pitchod their tents on the summit of “Mount Diabolo,” the bigh- est point of land al nig and from which they in- | tend to strike their lines. I will gee o1 further information as the work proceeds. As the corps came to this country without funds, I understand | that Mr. Collector hing bas signified his intention | to advance his namesake $20,0J0 to prosecute the beamed a uted authorities and the citizens thas | work, go that the United States government and ongan somes my duty te take some 2 | Califoraia will not suffer by eed lelay. This act *noped that's few ainmyle and practical susges, | om the part of Mr. King is highly commended by tions may serve to secure this rable end. | all parti 8, as Mr. King does it solely on his owa No security of life or property can be anteed ex- | TOrPARADEDY. s i cept the constitution and laws are observed. Lat these ‘wo new journals have been established in this be forcibly dispensed with, their sacredaess violated, ie reduced to & state of anar o dangerous {i y tendencies and probable results than the worst laws, | ‘Tho, matter how eor- | a_possibly be, no We are just entering upon our ca- Teer, Our charac not yet formed, people from ail climes and ail countrics are flocking to our shor then, becomes Us to take no unadvised step w! now, oF high and cemmandizg stand hereafter. But more than this, we owe it to ourselves to impress upoa the stranger: who have settled amongst us, unacquainted with, and per haps entertaining pre, favorable to the tical operation of our pe: tions, that our g mment is @ government of laws, and that, though the nay sometime re inadequate, sometimes ope oppressively, dininistes uptly, the remed, not in @ destruction of the entire system, but is to be cured by a peace‘ul rescrt to those constitutional means whieh are wisely allorded to reform whatever abuse muy under our system ruptly admint shale exist, and correct whatever errcrs may have been comm- | mitted, The occurrences of the past three or four weeks, the apprehension of individuals within the jurisdictioa of legally constituted tribunals, their trial, sentence. and execution, without authority of law, by a voluntary asso- ciation of citizens, who thus virtually place themselves above and beyond all law except that preseribed by aud for themselves, will prove sulliclently prejudicial to our interests abroad, commercial and otherwise, if such or- ganizations, assuming such upuestionably dangerous y refused, and we ere | patch, in this city, and the rejudice our claims tose | Location. Name ; it, | Sam Franeisco.,..,Alta California... * Daily Courier... - Daily Herail.. “ Daily Post » the Sunday Dis- Dorado News, at oloma, the spot where gold was first discovered. re are now thirteen papers published in the tate, as follows, namely :~ State in as many weeks, name! t .. Daily Union ‘Times & Trau: Loe Angeles Sonora Ban Jose } ‘The above statement, I think, augurs well for the powers, were now dissolved, but it continued there is no | caleulating the extent of the injury which may result t» usasa state. The dangerous tendencies, in other rs- epects of organizations of the character under consite- ration, the excitement produced in the public mind con- upon their action, resistance to the constituted almost inevitably result, and woen themselyi fi of their duties, t but ated by every right thiok! tate, and need not, th Vhatever may have been juiting, OF supposed to requi not extraordinary measures on the part it has new happily. in » great degree, passed, i such mearures show! po this account, if on no other, be at once aban Auother criminal code, more eilicient prov ttechiog adequ alties to the commission of offences, and dirceting a more prompt and ¢ gone into operation. Courts are now enabled to try, sentence, and execute, as the offence deserves; sate and fecure prision houses are being provided; and the o@icers. there is re: to belleve, are ready and anxious to discbarge the people I cannot do less. therefore, than earnestly recommend to my fellow citizens everywhere throughout the State to aid im sustaining the law. for in this is our ouly real and permanent secu fons may be organized, but ew to aid wad assist the yn of their duties, and Titles to detect, arrest mg this course, much l, be accomplished, and unlawfal assumptions of Will not them secure ermitted ined officers of the law in t act in ecncert with t and pupish eri 5 good may, and undoubiedty power, thus averted impunity to crimes. n to go unwhipt of that the laws are ex: good ens will cid! charge Our San Franctsco Correspondence. Ban Franc », August 1, 1551 Politicnl Affairs—Trouble be the Merchants in regard to the Duties on Tea—Con- C viction of Dutch Intent to Ki ince the moment or ¢ arley for an Assault with iling ar ¢ dates yitiet tone arolina has of sece weeks lw tw South day; aality, and ht h the ed on goods value of the , com expert dut goods, with cert , added, ineludi treaty w provides t goods ship 18 permitter ; ce : which is invariably added to the i oods imported into the | nited States, e of assessing the duties thereon. ‘rom China into this port, finding, on om house here, that al th China, negotiated by Mr. Cushing, hat certain export duties shall be paid on bipy DR ped from the five ports with which tra dto Americans, amounting to four pet The imperte the re organization of the cust was done, didnot like it. They had smuggled goods from China without paying the export J. and, not content wit ing that profit, rsof | with the commanding centrality of this city, it ¥ | manifest. the | ective administration of justice, has | duty imposed upon them by the , tor and | itis a’noterious * | a time, and that has {| so littlé encouragement, th ‘vice Va | | that the New York Herald does, and which | and protect | | new State, comparatively speaking one year old, and yet supporting nearly a score of newspapers. An editor's convention is called for the Sth August, which will be fully attended by all the frateraity. I will give you a full account of all that transpires, which you may depend upon it will be extremely interesting. in my last, | promised to visit Benecia again in order to gather such further items as would iate- rest your readers. | am particularly impressed . | grand radiating point to all parts of the State, either by land or water—and when the population | of the country increases, this faet will become more In running a line cast from the Pacific, to the base of the Sierra Nevada range of nioun- taing, this is the only convenient pace lace | trom north to south, andit is the natura lepot for the great valley of tho Sacramento, as well as epen- | the icster valleys, north of the bay, to wit, Suisun, Napa, Sonoma, &e.,&c. Those valleys beiag fine farming lands must ultimately become densely po- pulated, and Penecia will then become an impor- + tant city, as it will be their natural outlet. Ano- ther consideration will give importance to Benccia: it will probably be the depot of the railroad to the Pacific. At this place. also, are gathered the troops and military etore houses for the entire Pa- cific forces—either here or in the immediate vicinity will be located the dry dock and naval forces also. Jhad hoped to have sent you some particulars conceraing the soda and sulphur springs, just in the rear ot this towa, ag well as the boiling springs, further in the interior, but I must defer their histo- ry for the present. ss Ihave also visited Vallejo, adjoining the city of in the west. It is the future capita! of the t its permanency is of a very doubtful eh There are but twenty buildings erected in the place, and the principal number of those have been built for the temporary ures of the seve- ral State officers, who, by an act of the Legisla- ture, are required to reside there. 1 do not think, from yresent appearances, that there will be much improvement in the place; it looks as if the whole seheme of locating the capital here had been forced, and the change from San Jose isnot very popula with the masse? of our citizens. (ireat efforts are being made to havea State House erceted in time for th t Legislature. Merchants’ xchange has lately been estab- lished her large room of the new Atheneum Ciub How: etmeon Mont+ gomery e* The use of the room 1s gi M,tolZP. M. The hours « isto be trém 7to 10 P.M. Th lnst Wednesday evening, 30th, and was largely attended. It is established on a firm t d will suceced. The subset is $5 mem ber. rece ij news conveying t the Union was wrecked, Capt. E nwall’s line Howland & As t the disposal i e Union, the ste Oo, were oft rama. The Capt. Knight 3 tor his action ame y of for ped been tried med Ball, sHenry, i t the ver- The motion was and dl Charley sen- The sentence nd hisses by the expected that penalty of the law, the State | h et ni 148 again vidual & di arg morning re tenced to one year's imprisonment was received with mingled gre multitude who were present, States of - 4 America ate sometimes es 1 in Congress by as goodly a number of sap-heads as could be eae | bly brought together in any otber country. Now, th: er before has there been ‘n in operation so short ielded such an immense re- venue te the federal government from her customs, post. office, and other sources, as the 1 of C fornia, and yet bas received «o few pi they cannot, with a new State, any degree of trath and prop emed bene- ficial jo her. There is al arance, and the tifhe will come when California will show her self to be true to herself. In looking about for @ newspaper channel, through whica we can make known our complaints ani bring thom before the high official eye,” we alway? un atingly tura our attention toward the column: of your journal, and for this reason the mars cf ( aliforniaus know full well that there is ro journal in the States which ean wield the influence, both publie and pri done more, in every way, to advan the interests of our great and growing State. ‘When | left this country, in February, ona visit to the States, Californians were groaning under the severe 1 tax to which they were subjected. Whey Weg EMAling to pay the duty GR INE AMOUNT | While at home @ Vill was pascod “seducing the tes of postage” throughout the States, to auch @ degree ato Gume within tho capacity uf all: as & of course, it gave riseto many m Cast eee, 8 @ desire to reward the pro- tor of the miners of C: ia. When this great tl | reduction of postage is looked into, it becomes no | ten ‘he same, and from none more especially | four men were on trial a; Sacramento for highway imprisonment, for assault and batt vith te kill F- A. Ball, » member of the rand Duane New York. is from Now lass despateh carried the intelligence that eieot robl Three of them were convicted and to be bi on the 23d August. Their | meserial reduction at at any rate as far gs this | names are Wm. Rodinsoo, James Gibson, and | Sate is concerned, merely in at the “spiggot and | John Thompson. Bobinson mide @ confession, in out at the bung;” and for this reasoa, every | which he stated that his real name is William Ben- ; man who sendsa letter to the States, in nine | jamim Heppard; that he was born in West Broad- eases out of ten, accompanies it with @ | way, New York, and had assumed his mother’s steamer paper of the day. A large number who maiden name of Rovinson. It is said that he was | have not the time to write, do not send acy letters | formerly steward of the steamer “wallow, on the | at all, but merely a newspaper, with their iuitials | marked thereon, gignitying vo their frieuds a: bowe, who are familiar with their handwriting, tha: they are stillin the land of the living. furmerly che | postage ona letter was forty cents, aad on nows- papers, three cents paid and five ceats Bapeid, Aad now for the benefit we derive here from cheap postage: Letters are charged six conts or more, and newspapers in accordance with thelr weight, and the result is that often times from “tea to forty cents” have been charged on a double sheet éteamer paper brought “wet” from the office of publication. Insuch cases, ‘cheap postage” is pre cisely just where it always was, ‘‘nowhere.” Our ne: ir rietors here, with # liberality which doos’ thea ininite eredit, e agreed, in view of these to send free all newspapers bought directl: them, and thus the difficulty ie | im a measure obviated; but why should the pres? be taxed to such an extent, for the purpose of throw- ing off from their patrons an onerous burdea, which thvir representatives in their asinine weakacss seek to ge upon them. We would just as leave go without our meals in Califorpia as our newspapers. Californians cherish and respect taeir pres:, and honor those by whom it is conducted. They know, and we all know full well, that the columns of the press of our country stand unequalled for their in | trinsic merit, and we also know that they are as | good a school for 2 man to educate himeelf in (if he | ft any perceptive qualities at ali) as there is ex- tant, and many a man now in high official emi- | nence and learning, has, from tae well written and truthful articles of the press, laid the permanent foundation of all his greatness. Take our news- | paper: from us by any bardensome tax, and you take away all light, happiness, and pleasure; fur who is there that lives wader the Ameyican flag will deny, that to the press, and free and independent pross e+ pecially, we are indebted for many of the civil and religious liberties we now enjoy. ‘t i: the oaly safeguard of our republic. One other circumstance in connection with the post office I wish to direct your attention to, and ask towards its eradization your hes: efforts and influence; it is this: Before the Caoap Fostege bill went into operation it was customary for the miners to have their letters from home directed to san Francisco and ~acramento, and by handing their names to express agents, and by paying them fifty cents, they would have their letters procured rom the post office, and brouzht to them ix safety. This plan worked admirably, and gave complete satis- postal difficulties, and he has, as far as the miner | are concerned, most sadly disarranged them ; for, failing to make an arrangement with the various express men to carry letters throughout the mining districts, he has absolutely prohibited poatmasters from delivering letters, ept by the weristen re- quest of the persons desiring them (when at least | half of those in the mines cannot write), aud then they must no; be given to express men, on acrount of the cheap postage, but must be sent to the near- est post office. Now, how perfectly ludicrous that | becomes, when the nearesi post ouice ts somctimes only 200 miles from the poor disconsolate miner, who wishes his letter, and cannot spare the time, nor pay the expense of the 200 miles ¢ 1, aad is | Rever in the same te more than a week at a time, and, consequently, must go without his letter; | whereas the express map, to use a very plain term, | would chase him up, and hand him the letter, at a ebarge of 50 cents or +1 at the extent. The above are two things which, on behalf of thousands, | Iwish to call your attention, and through your | columns, that of the Postmaster General, namely, | the postage on letters, and imposition 02 miners. | The amount of the business is, the whole Post | Office Department ia California is managed ina | disgraceful manner, and in no place more so than | San Francisco. By advocating a thorough reno- | vation of the whole affair you wil! receive the | heartéelt thanks of every miner in the S:ate of | CaLuwornia. i San. Francisco, July 31-4 P. M. | The Nicaragua Rowte—Affairs in Oregon—Genzray Lane in San Francisso— The Oregon and Cali- fornia Mines, §c., Gc. Sc 1 send to-day my first despatch, directly by the ' Nicaragua route, to the Atlantic side, per the steamer Independence, which leaves in the course ofan hour or two. The Pacific, the pioneer vessel | on this route, lefs on the Ith, but would proceed | to Panama, as weil as Del Sud, giving the passen | gers the choice of routes. ‘he Independence, how- | ever, will go no further than the latter polat, un- levs she be met there with the intelligense that the | bonts, on the other side, are not in readiness. A | failure to connect on the first trip, would do an in- | jury tothe route that could not be remodied in a cwelve month. The Independence is commanded by Captaia | Wakeman, who gained no little notoriety for | running away from New York with the steamer | New World, with the Sheriff’s officers on b ard. | He is tye gt ye on the Pacitic » a capital sailor. His instructions from th onts here are, to run the boat te the !’acific terminus of | the new route in eleven days, which will mal | about twenty two days to New York. Should t | trip be made inthis space of time, the old com- panies will be obliged to take efficient measures to prevent the general diversion of travel by that route. Sirce my last letter to the JJera/d, nothing of spe- cial interest has occurred in California. The scenes of bloodshed and executions, by the populace, whic's characterized the eee two weeks, have not again been enacted. The courts of San Francisco are now fearlessly doing their duty, and although the Vigilance Committee still continue their organi- jon, they act now asa detective police rather | than the executors of the law, handing ovor the villains arrested by them to the officers an courts. (Quict again reigns, not on!y here butin almost every section of the State, although lawloss a sts of violence | are atili too frequent to give our State the high Pe | sition of peace and morality which is so desirable to give us reputation abroad. in the last forty-eight hours, tliree steamers have arrived from Uregon—the Columbia, the Sea Gull, and the Chesapeake. There is no special news frou above.* Several skirmishes ad occurred between the (United States troops, under Major Kearny, and the Indians, the latter being goneral- ly lispersed. At the last advices, Gen. Gaines was endeavoring to eficet a treaty with the Rogue River Indians, with some prospect of success. | Among the passengers who caine down in the mbia was Gen. Lane, the newly elected dele- ~~ to Congress from (regon. ile leaves Aor the Atlantic side in the Oregon, to-morrow, designing to make a visit to his ol triendsia [ndiana previous faction, until Mr. Hobbie came outhore to arrange | | North river. } Six O’erock | P.8.—The steamer Sea Bird, 249 days frow New York, bas just arrived. She comes by way of Pa- | Bama, wth ret sxengers. While coming up, she | struck onthe island of Martine, and knocked a | smal hole inher bottom, but was delayed but a | shert time in consequence. An arrival, this afternoon, from Honolulu, 34 days, brings no lator intelligence of importance from the Sandwich Islands. ‘Two Weeks’ Events tn California. {from the San Fraucisco Post, July 31.) The events of the past two weeks are of a less exciting character than those embraced in the sum- | mary of the last steamer. No great outrage has occurred to heighten the excitement in the public mind; the subsisting excitement has abated. Un- der the amended Criminal Code, which took effect on the Ist inst., and which allows the jury a disore- tion to punish either with imprisonment or by death, thore guilty of arson, robbery, burglary, X¢., jong many other rigorous but necessary provi- sions,) a few trials have been had, among the most conspicuous of which is that of Robinson, (:ibsonand ‘Thompson, convicted at Sacramento of the robbery of James Wilson, and condemned to death. It is hopes that the courts will act promptly, and in the spirit of this law, so tha: no instance may occur in which it may be deemed necessary, by any of our courts, to resort to extra judicial OS ay ‘The reperis from the mining ricts are more | favorable than any period during the presen: year, and the shipments of gold for August and Septem- ber, ea doubtless far exceed those of any previous mouth. «The most remarkable features of mining operations are the numerous undertakings, by companivs, all along the veins and tributaries, to divert the water from their channels ; the extensive canals on the tributaries of Calaveras, Tuolumne, American and Yuba, to carry water upon placers kno #n to be rich, but without water; and lastly the fair prospects of | a practical and successful boginning of quartz mia- ing, with heavy, improved machinery. he uvprecedentedly low stage of water in all the rivers has been especially favorable to enterprises of the first class; many damming companies are al- ready at work in the beds of streams, which have been exposed for miles, and some rich deposits have | been struck; and there is a prospect of a stil! fur- | ther fall of the rivers for the next three moaths. The canal projects, at first on a limited scale and successful, have been undertaken on alarge plans | and witha heavy capital. hat for turaing the | South Fork of the American several miles through | the hills to the valleys and gulches about Placer- ville, is the most gigantic one oa foot, and the | company is about to be organized, with such con- | fidence that the stock, from a quarter to half a | million, will be readily taken by the miners in that | vicinity. cess of quartz mining, and the belief is every day becoming more general that this will becowe the great on prospectirg is past; combined capital and labor, hes hh by systematic and scientific principles, will | succeed whore a blind trust in fortune and in indi- | vidual efforts has failed. The subject of agriculture is beginning to attract considerable interest. Although the past winter and spring were unusually dry, experiments have proved eminently succeseful, and there isa desire among many who came here as mere sojourners, to setle permanently in California, and gather arouad them the comforts of a home. It is estimated that there are already twenty thousand persons settled and devoted to agricultural pursuits. The Indian hostilities have ceased on the south- ern and castern borders, and broken out on the northern frontier. A military expedition, under command of Gen. J. M. Estell, will accompany the Indian Commissioners, in their tour of negetiatioa, to Clear Lake, thence to the sources of the Nacra- mento. After which they will proceed to Klamath river. The hostile Indians on Kogue’s river have been dispersed, but not subdued. Navigation on the upper rivers is suspended, on account of the low stage of water. There are abou: 15) substantial brick houses in San Frane'sco, nearly all of which have been erect- ed since the fire in May, and extensive preparations arein progress for the manufacture cf brick and the quarrying of stone, to fill numerous contrasts of this Kind. Two companies of overland immigrants have ar- rived in the mines from lilinvis, Michigan, and Wisconsin. A fire occurred in Sacramento (ity on the morn- ing of the 10th, which destroyed eight houses. ‘I’ loss was small, yet it isthe largest fire which has occurred in that favore t city. Gold mines are now worked in Carson's Val on the eastern ‘leclivities of the Sierra Nevada. The two politica! parties are holding conventions in the various counties to nominate for the Legis- lature and for county offices. for Congress have been busily engaged in canvass- ing the State ec Piet of dividing the State is still urged in ol some seat of nearly all the Spanish establishments in this State, but which have lost all their political impor- tance under the now regime. Polltical Affairs, The following is a list of the party nominations in the different counties of the State, as far as as- eertained :— STATE TICK ET Democratic, Whig. Jobn Bigter, P. B. Reading. . vel rate. Deury P, fiw in 8 Sol'n Hevdenfettt, Tou Robinson State Treasurer... Richard Roman, 4. M. Burt, State Comptroller. .W. S. Pierce, Alex'r G. Abell. Attorney General. 8. ©. Ht D Fai Surveyor Genera Congress. Distri Henry Criohter. Wm. 1, Stewart, D. kK. Newell. i Daniel J. Lis! Jos. C. Mekibbon Johu T. Me AESEM PLY. Democrafire ++ Dr, John B. Smith, C! 3. La Ww ohn Walton, Bon). F, Keene, JSaimes Walsh, to proceeding to Washington. A grand supper | was given him at Jones’ livctel, last mght, by Gov. MeLougal, at which were present most of the state tor Gwin, and a host of our dignitaries. | seri blage of talent I never saw vogether. | wed until a late hour of the | big. Marion of the Mexican war” is ex- ceedingly popular, not only in Oregon but along | t ife Atlantic coast. } The steamers brought down from | 'regon about $100,000 in gold, most of it the product ot the \la- | math and Kogue river iines, which, a3 far as | worked, ure proving satisfac torily rich. During the quarter ending June 30th, there bas been caported irom this port the sum of $0,430,000. This would give 37,750,000 for the year, in which is not included, of course, the amount which has gone forward in private hands. In the months of May and June number of emigrants, and amount: g e the following goods, ar- rived at this post, as appoars by the Custem Ilouse books: — Total, 4450 | red Shy 01 i | etese +2866 «30515316 | Value of Forel ending June 00. | Amount bonded P coesess $000,408 00 | Amount withdrawn for consumption $509.818 Fer exportation,....... voes 0208 i, Merchandise bonded for the quarter 561 | | $953,059 00 | Pecese warehoured over amount withdrawn, $56.455 00 Abstract of duties collected for the quavter ending Jane 30, 185) — $216,856 95 201,990 21 | 298.046 50 ‘ . $6) 208, 06 | vessels arriving during May | and June, of all classes, was 235, having a tonaago | of 75,159 tong. The news from the mines, both north and south, is cheering. ‘Ine estimate given above for the 12 months, of the amount of gold to go forward, will be more than realized. ‘Tne sum will reach nearer fit y millions, to which add ten millions for the smount which finds its way out of the country | ise than through the Custom House, and | you will have o fair estimate of the guld product of | California for 1551. i The clipper ship Architect, from Now York, ar- rived in port, yesterday, in 120 days, 116 running | time. In the Court of Sessions, this morning, Charles Dyene alias Duwh Charley, was sen-enged to ong | forthe month of A) pril a | | bed of t El Dorade. Albert W. Bee. Samuel 1; Mills, Wm. &. Hopkias Dr. John Catler. Monterey... \ Nevada .W. D, Williams, Wim. if, Lyons, Philip Moore, Sacramento... San Joaquin. Yote Joba Mining Intelligence. s From the Aita Califoruia, Avg. 1.) The persons engaged in m , are all making good wag At twenty miles beyond the Mormon Statioa, they are making from $10 to $20 perdey. A great inany miners are now wending their way in that direc- | tion Dr. Shelton Wright called on us last eve and from hitn we learn that the miners in that seo- tion are all doing well. ‘The company of which he is a member are engaged in turning the river, and in digging the race they wach the dirt from the top to the bed rock, and average frum ton to fifty dol- lars per day to the hand. We were present, on Thureday evening last, to witness the operation of the Archimedean pump that is intended to drain the “claims” of the Co- luna Damming Company. It is 21 foct long aad 4 feet in diameter, and «lischarges about 7,000 gallons of water per hour. !t is propelled by a large wheel which is set in the race. |i is ‘the | opinion of many that they will have to construct another ye? before they will be able to drain the @ river eufficiently to workinit. This, however, is a email matter, as the power afforded by the water wheel is suiticient to run half a dozen joes ‘The prospecting done by this ompany has con very encouraging, and they a sanguine of being compenrated for the vast amos and labor they have expended wes ng. the work, which we sincerely hope they wil for there is no class of people in the country whom wo would | fooner see prosper than the industrious and patient miner. (old has lately been found in the surface dirt on a bilinear the North Fork of the American river. | The carth is shovelled up indiscriminately, and cated or packed down to the river to be washed. Major Sweoteer called upon us yesterday, having just come down from the City’ of '76, where the Washington \ ompary, of which he is president, is located. He informs'us that the veins which that | company are working, increase in richness daily, and that they are proving far more entensive than Was at first supposed. ‘There has been alsoa now vein opencd on the other side of the Ni ja range, about balf a mile from the old claims. The Major thinks this vein is a continuation of the one which | is tow being worked, inasmuch as it lies dirzctly opporite to st about the same diejanze below the fuomit of the mountain. There is inereased confidence in the ultimate suc- | permanent source of gold. The age of j ‘The four candidates | the southern counties, which were once the | | MeKee expects to reach appearance of bustle the fam ik pom _ ous mines of reek. @that the excitement is ix- = byt Sea wo, ma: are be aor and exceedingly wallanld tenting veing ma. visible. The ore has been struck in every part of the Sandias Mountain, where miners have pros- twelve — thick. i“ A vein of decom quarts has been diszovered, 80 soft as to aan ith the hands. its extent is visible some fifty yards, and will yield ten cents to the pound. Rastra, or track mills, (a simple con- struction for amalgamating) are now being made, each of which ulverize and amalgamate forty- af mill five hundred tae of the quartz per day, pertie interested a very bountiful yi 1 to the At tl ig 9 the miners are doiug well. Ow Wood’s creck, above Sonora, a company of ten men take from their long tom, daily, from four to five hundred dollars. © water can be had without carting earth, the miners aro well satisfied? with the result of their day’s labor. Many of the diggings are without waver, and earth is carted a distance of one to three miles. The Stanislaus Water Company will remedy that evil for man: miles from the commencement of the work, whic! they expect to finish in the course of two months. It will give an abundant sapply of water to the dif ferent camps, and irrigate many of the beautiful gardens to be scon on the mountains. From a letter to the editor, bya miner at Inliaw bar on the Tuolumne, we extract the subjoined a count of golden prospec's in that ricinity. The writer is engaged in ming operations, of which he says:—The ditch is six feet deep and sixteen wide, and runs principally through a sort of bottom, once, douotlves, the old river bed. place has not been fuirly tested by any deep shafts, 1 am under the conviction that heavy deposits will yet be found throughout the whole flat, comprising, an area of from seventy to one hundred acres. On the river bank some holes have been teen or eighteen feet deep, and they ha per dicm per hund; though, great exe: necessary tokeep out the water, so far bed of the river, but little has been don: ‘The rivers are steadily and permanently falling, and are as low at this time as they were two months ater last year. We have no doub: that h gold promise to be very low indeed. fe The Texas company, who have been f. at work about one hundred yards from the claim of the Louisiana Company, have a: the gold bearing vein, and found it their most sanguine expectations. ‘Thi claim of the many that are daily provi before many months nora Will a: done by her placers. We learn from Mr. J. S. Craig, who called us yesterday, on bis way homeward, tha* the upon the Middle Yuba are doing uncommonly articularly pees a small stream*emptyi. Yuba. called Wolf Creek. | Our informant states that three Kentuckians have taken ous over $9,000 during the last month, and that many others are equal fortunate. Provi- ions are unusually orm pork selling fo; he g flour for $20 per ewt! old found on Welf Creek is very coarse. At German Bar, on the main s\ream, extensive damming operations are be- | ing carried on, and the prospects of the miners are yhatiermg. Wolf Creck is about thirty-five above Nevada. Murder by Mexleans. From the Stockton Journal, Aug. 23. Norru Fork, Caravenas, July ls, b About three o’clock this afternoon, two Ameri cans, who were passiog up the Chilian (rulch, within two miles of this place, called at 2 tent to ma’e. some inquiry, when they discovered that a you American had been murdered, and h!s companior lay by him exhausted and bleeding, but suflicient!» sensible to ask for a drink of water, which wa given him, and be then stated that he end his co anion had been attacked at noon by three aru Mexicans. At thej time they wore attacked, t survivor said he was inside the tent, engaged writing letters; one to his mother was finished, » another to a friond commenced, when, bearing t. attack outside upon his companion, who bad go outside to cook his dinner, he attempted to step c” and was met by the three Mexicans, ose of whom. snapped a large revolver pistol twice at him, and then assailed nim with the butt of the pistol, and also with a heavy sword or cutlass, which he at- tempted to ward off with his naked hand:, asneithe of the Americans had firearms. One blow cut the thumb of his righ: hand en- tirely through the bones, icaving it barely hanging to his hand, and the jeft hand had g:asped tite sword, which had beea wrenehed out © to lac rate it dreadfully. One stab penetrated the eavity of the chest, wounding the right tung, another thrust entered the windpipe, and his hea’ appeare cleft to the brain, with otaer wounds o i a tature that it is wonderful how he long _ He had there lain by his dead thre hours. Ile retained bis senses f two, and tore his sufferings with a noble :oura, and fortitude, and described the murderers as entir strangers to them ; that they let him fur dead, and rode away upon two auimals, two of them ridin on one; that they had robbed them of al) their gold, some two or three hundred dollars. The name of the young man murdered first is Ro- | bert E. Bradshaw, from Massachusetts, about 24 ears old, and the other is Wm. A. Simpson, Sharlestown, Mass., agedabout 24 years. Thy was in an unfrequented ale which proba! duced the murderers to believe that thei: would not be soon discovered, and there is littl doubt that the assassins had watched them for #01 | time. Last evening they were at this place, poke of leaving, as the water had failed. The; were remarkably correct and inoffensive persons, and much esteemed by all who knew them. Ever assistance was given to young Simpson, by staunch- | ing his wound, and administering medicine, by mers | who immediately girs in as the news of the murder spread. He expired at 10 o'clock this evening. | The murderers took the road toward Stockton, and five men, well armed, are in pursuit of them, who, it is hoped, will succeed in arresting these monstors. hey are cortainly guilty of the most | blood-thirsty and awful murd in open day, that | evor have occurred inthe country, | We learn from Mr. Hamilton, who hag just. re+ turned from a trip to Calaveras county, that two4 men, from Boston, Maes., whose names be did not learn, were murdered at Calaveras river, on I'riday | morning. One of the murdered men lived long | enough, after being found hiv friends, to de- | scribe the perpetrators of this outrage, who wero | Mexicans. Two men immediately started ia pur- suit, and at utter’s creek, four miles from this sido of Jackson, the county scat of Calaveras cougty, overtook two \icxicaas, who answored the desorip-- tion precixely as given by the dying ma | As Mr. Hamilton parsed, on Sunday, P. M., the Mexicans were about being removed to Jackson, for examination. ve | miles Slaughter of Indians ' (From the San Francisco ly 31.) Late intelligence fiom Sacramento gives accounts of an extensive slaughter of Indians at Pitt river On the morning of the 6th of July,a party of fifteer. In Shasta. Post commenced, and w up for ¢ rablo time, during which time some | sixty or soventy were killed, and a large number | mortally wounded. ‘The party captare.! and brought in four equaws, and ove young child, about six | years old. On the following morn one and fifty men, well armed, left for Pitt river, all other parts of the country where the Indi were to be found. On the gight of the Mth, a party of five men (miners) were attacked in the night, four miles from Shasta. .\ man by the name of Matthews, from lowa, was shot dead on the spot, and three others badly wounded, one of whom has since di His name was Osborne, trom Salem, Mages. ey Were all brough: in, and the tro de- ceased cnes Were taken from the St. (harles ilotet and decently interred. ‘I'he Indians are daily eom- mitting depredations, killing one, two, or three ata eime every few days. and ans Army Movementemindian Treaties, Uhe Indian (‘ommissionor, Vol. Rediex MoKeo, we are informed, was to leave Sonoma about the ist of August, for the purpose of making treaties with the Indians in all that portion of the State ly- ing north of the l'ay of San Francisco aad west of the Sacramento river. He would be accompanied? by a detachment of U. S. Dragoons, under com- mand of Major Kearney, as an escort. Major-General | steil and staf, of the Second Hivision State Militia, would also a:company the expedition as far as Cloar Lake, where it is sap- posed atreaty will bo casily ontered into with the numerous tribes that reside upon its shores. Should the Commissioner succeed in negotiating a treaty of peace with the (lear Lake Indians, be will then pivceed north to the Klamath and Trinidad, cor cludin, cna ceable understandings with the In- dians along the route be posstiio. Colonel Meco “Prinidad about the 23th ugust. =o soon as amicable arrangamonte are entere: inte with the Indians around Clear lake, Majo General l:stell will return to San Francisco, and from thence proceed by water to the Klamath. He has already, under orders from the (/overnor, taken steps to organize five companies of volunteers in that region dd they will be ready to act at a mo- . ment’s warning. The (Ceneral expects to reack ‘Vrinidad about the 20th August, and will be pees pared, upon the arrival of Col. Melee, to aid aesiet the Commissioner im forming treaties or { pected. The Tennessee company have struck a vein of b] a will be taken out of the rivera this season, as they © world by her aaarte mines even more than he has |