The New York Herald Newspaper, September 9, 1854, Page 1

pee Nene THE NEW YORK HER WHOLE NO. 6589. MNEwWs BY TELEGRAPH, INTERESTING FROM WASHINGTON. _ Muchisfery of the New Steam Frigates. | POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE. RESIGNATION OF THE CANADIAN MINISTRY. The New Idiot Asylum of New York. SPROCEEDINGS OF THE ODD FELLOWS’ CONVENTION, Se, &., &e. From Washtugton. “TRE NEW GOLD COIN—THE M \CULNcRY OF THE NRW STBAx FAIGATE—GOVEKNMUNT DESIGNS AT ST. DOMIN(0-— TH KIDNAPPING Ca-K, ETO., ETC. WasuisGron sept 8, (854. The Sec: etaty of the Treasury has noprored of the new for gold dollars, and sect crtors to the mint to commence striking them off. Amorg the bidders for the cvn'ract for the constric- ‘dow of the wachinery of the six new steam frigates ave tthe follow nz from New York :—Mirgan {row Worka, T. @E Farren; Allsiroe Iron Works, Pease & ‘urphy, Joba ©. Erickson and J. Borns, West Point Foundry; act “from Phileslphia, Messrs. Merrics & ~oas. The award <of the covtrscts for the new machigery will be mide next week. ‘(ho bidding is quite spicted. Messrs E-. crickaon aud Meagher arrived here this morning. Ths »ormer intend: presenting something ae in relation to ‘the engires of tho new government steam frigates. + ‘The Star asectta that the St. Domingo negotiations refer only to the securing of 1 Wes: India port for ths sane of American shipping where their privileges wiil bo ‘superior to those of all other nations ‘The Kidnapping case, already alluded to, is cresting <#ome excitemont. The girl has been traced and will be Teeoveres. Aviolent gale wes experieve-d this afternoon for a “Yee minutes, and was succreded by @ geaue rain for a brief perio’. The wind was fromthe southward. Stanley, the artist of the Indian gallery at the Sm'th- + aonian-fuctication, bas achieved a grea tciumph in his ‘panorams «* tle Western wilds, just finished. His ‘“Ia- +<dian Pair’ Des been secured for exhidition at the Me- «thaniec’ Fair, Baltimore. ~Polttical | Matters, ‘DEMOCHATIC CONVENTION aT INDIANOPOLIS. Inpraxoroiss, Sept. 8, 1864. The Des ocratie Moss Convention held to-day was “erge and enthusiastic. Addreaces were made by Hon. 2. 4 Dougiss, Ton. Geo. E, Pagh, and Hon. Joseph Lane, and were well received. TUE SOFT SHELL CONVENTION. Sykacves, Sep’. 8, 1854. Thedexco=rats here take the action of the late convon- “tion coolly, Some say that if Preston King, Avijah ‘Mann, end their friends, do pot tabe action for an or. @anigation, n ticket must be made at the Anburn Anti- Nebraska Convention Tho Stindard hoists the tick+t, but will not own the Nebraska resolutions, Seymour is _populer bere. Whig primary meetings were held in all the aards Sesterday, and sre gnid to have yorn » Know Nothiog espest. CONGRESBIQONAL NOMINATION. Privaperrata, Sept. 8, 1854. The Whig Conferenee of the 1 a Conaressional dis “taict met xt Flarrieburg last night, and nominaied Joha ©. Kuntel. ‘Resgneiion of the Casadsan Silnistry, Qownnc, Sépt. 8, 1854. ‘This aftersorn Mr. Hincks made \ ministerial explans “don, that when the ministry was defeated on the Spexk etebip, he czcluted it could not carry any of its pro- jects, but had intended to have tho atdresses debited, vaxd take bts course afterwards. Hechai his dater- winstion Lowever, lest night, when he found the minis- tera could rot obtain from the House twenty-four hours delay, to #etezmine on their course ragerding the orivi ege questio.. raised in favor of the membor for Bagot, end now tenicced their resignati ws, which were accept «ed. No ceticite progress has boea made towarcs the “formation ct a new ministry. The omuae Lodge of I. 0. of O. F. Barrrwoas, Sept. 8, 185% ‘The Grand Lodge 1 © of O. F. last n ght discussed the proposed smendments to its constitution, Among the ‘amendmenis adopted is one fixing the time of acaual meeting on the third, instead of tho firs. Monday in ‘September. The Grand Lodge today adoptsd the report of tno ‘Sommittee of the Whole on the Amended Constitution and sfterwanis adopted the now constitution by a cote of 86 to 6. ite Committee on Credentials reported iu ~fevor of Mr. Ciark for the seat from Onio, but the lodge, ‘y 0 vote of &% (040, adopted a resolution that neftice of the contestants was entitled to the reat, in conse quence of sileged illegality in the proceedings. A pro- test will be cuicred against the decision. + An evening session. of several hours dura!iou, devoted to the work of the Order, commeccod at 7 o'clock The New Stato idiot Asylum, SyRacosg, opt. 8, 1854. ‘The corner stone of the new Idiot Asylam was Isid at twelve o’elect to doy on the grounds at Geddes, formerly owned by Secretary Leavenworth, who did the honors. After prayer ty Rey. Mr. Ashley, rector of St. Paula Choreh, and music by Miller’s Band, the stone was luil Dy Allen Mource, in the absence of Gov. reymour. P. RB, Wilbur, superintendent of the iastitution, was the vifiret speaker, and wes followed by Hoa. Washingtoa Bunt, whe gave a history of the movement. Remarks ‘wore alse mas by Dr. Lequin, Mc Conger, and othors. From the South Baxrmmone, Sept. 8, 1#54 The Howsrd Association in Néw Orleans had com znenced teking care of the yellow fever patients. ‘The Mabilitis: of Robertson, the absconding merc'isa’ from Augusta, amount to thirty thousand doliars. A Famvy Barrea to Death. ALBANY, Sept. 8, 1954. Op Tnesdaz night the house of Mr Baldwin at Moriah Evex county, was burned down, and himeelf, wife and Tour childreo were borned to death: Great Fire at Columbus, Miss. Covomnus, Mise., Sept. 8, 1854. A destructive fize occurred in this town to-day; four- teen stores aad dwellings were burzed to ‘The loss is univown. ile, A Murderer Excouted. CINcINsaTt, Sept. 8, 1854. Francis Dick was executed ut Dayton to-day, for the mporder of his mother in law and brother in-law. He “ad previously confessed his guilt. Newspaper Suspension, PHILADELYHIA, Sept. 8, 1854 ‘eg Daily Evening Register suspeated publication to- the growad. CONVENTION FOR ASSAULT AND Batreny.-—James ‘Bughes, of New York, aud a dolegate to the’ Sot” ‘Couyention at Syracuse, was arrested at Staavix Ballin this city this morning, charged with com- Mittipgeanasaault apd battery uya Mr Robert tei @rovier, in hard cars befweea Syracuse and i depot. It re thst they had a oon versation together at the . Charles’ Hotel at Syra- ense, which tone words were atered by Mr. ~ Allen, at w! took offeace, aad while Hi jm the cars the: ae when Hagnee dealt hia severe] blows kno king two of his. tecth out, acd othe =o) chee oa the oe a ‘oxtil- bited Drett i fuce, one pd veneers ed Hy ote aud. hia ogee aad cut, e ré had @ pretty sharp ran before they caught Hug)cs at the hotel. A'ter a considerable we, spent at the Police Office between the respov ‘tive counsel in regard to the legality of tie arrest, Sow was oe oie oe by fan hee paving sonnel when the par: ani Journal, Sect. 8. wud —— =—— MORNING EDITION—SATURDAX, SEPTEMBER 9, 1854: VERY S BY TELEGRAPH, | VERE ZATH FROM CHINA | _Peemmewros. | ARR FROM CHINA. with linportant Despaichos—Canten Sac rounded by 0 Lives Lost. Mebeis—One Thousand OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONBENCE, Say Francisco, aug. 16—12 M. ‘The clipper bart Mermaid arrived this morning from Hovg Kong; in thirty-five days; b:iogs no papers, but I loarm that all te foreign merchants have been compelled | to leave Canton, and have gone on board mes of war of their respective uations. Also, that two ships bound to California, laden with Chivamen, have been lost in the China seas, with oue thousand lives. Zhe Mermaid comes under sealed orders, which explains why Pen tg nor ktiers. Saw Francisco, Aug 16—1 P.M. The bark Yermaid reached this port this morning, after 8 passage of forty-four days {pom Hong Kong via Bombay. She brings later news from China. I leare that a French Peer of high rank came-passenger from Bombay, and im- mediately tool: passage in the steamer which leaves at 2 o'clock, for your city. He appeared as if he had some important burine:s or despatches, and was in great haste to obtain his passage. C. Our aivices from Hong Kong, brought by the Africa from Liverpool, were to the 6th of Jaly, and from Bom bay to the 26th of that month. If the Me-maid was only thirty five days from Tong Kong, as one of the above lotters stater, her news is, of couree, later from both pointe. ‘Toe mission of the French officer may have something to do with the moverments of the Russians in India, a inéieated in the followiog despatch, which we received yesterd: Bostuay, July 20, 1854. ‘The King of Oude has offered to the English govern. ment aa: end 100 guns. Russian agents are in treaty with Cabul ‘The Friend of China of the lst of July, has the follow- ing:-— We have nothing authentic from the disturbed districts between the Bogue and Canton, beyond the that the large town of Toonkoon is also in rebel possession. Can- ton residen’s express a good deal of o nfidence in their position, and ray the timo fer an attack is not come yet. ‘the Governor General is more ranguine than ever, and hae decapitated as many ae three hundred within the last fornight, we are told. This fearful smount of blood shedding, though per: formed with a view to strike terror iato the hearts of those who threaten to sack the city, mects with no ap- Pr val from the city residents. When the rebels do take he city, the massacre of government officers will be com- pete. The bundreds and thousands of Canton men, pene and children that were murdered by the Jartars in 1652, is not forgotten, and will be terribly avenged. Board of Counciimen, ‘apr. 8—Edwin J. Brown, President, in the chair. ‘The minutes of last meeting were read and approved. RESIGNATION Of Mark Fowler, as Inspector of Election, Third dis- trict, Fifth ward. Accepted, and the appointment of John M. Bennet in his place. INVITATION From Edward 0. Tibbett, to witness the working of his cold water safety steam engine, on Saturday, the 9th inst, Accepted. COMMUNICATION FROM THE MAYOR, In answer toa resolution adopted by the Board, far- visbing the orders given to the police for the eutorce- went of the ordinance on the garbaging of the public streets and alleys, and also reporting to the Ruard that eight arrests had been made in the Fighte:nth wa a tince 17th June for offences wentioned in said orders. Laid on the tatue, ard ordered to ba prinied PRIIVIONS REFERRED Of B Healey for rermissioa to geady in frout of his property cn Eleventh avenue, fbetyeen Fitty-alxth and Vitty seventh streets, Oi Gererol Word B. Burnett, of the First Regiment New York Voluntiers to de refunded monays ex wad sd by bia and eumiry pecvoms, to equip the sald regi mentor the Me: 1 wer. Ot Thom+s Humphe ¢, for remuveretion for dam canned by falling dowa an embankment va Secoad ave- nw ‘Of Wm. Dunning and others, to be organized ac a hose com pany, &t Menhattanvilic. RESOLUTIONS By Coune'lman Coorka—That the Commissionsr of Ko- vsire ond Supplics be requested to remove tho gump aud cover over the well in Bang street, petween read welt wn Wa-bington stiveta, the some Meing unnocessory and the lohaoitenta of :he neighborhood sro desirows of hay ing it removed. Adapted. By Councilman Fxve—That the police fores of the So- venteeoth ward be imoreasei by the addition of tnree & members, By Coancil man Ciancry—That the Comptroller re- vert to this Bosrd by what authori’y he pays the con. tractor for cleaning streets of the Sixth wars, as the +aid contractor has not fulfilied in any manner the sti pulations of his coutract. aud as the said werdis ma very iby cordition This resolution demunda from the Comptroller the reasocs why he bas paid the cca trector woy money againet the rem sastravecs of numer- ous ciizens ot the sixth ward. Adopted By Councilman Matuxr—That the clerk be authorized to arrange with Dr. O'Cailxghan for the transls*ion of seven volumes ef original Dutch Records now in tho Clerk’ office, Referrea to the Commitiee of the Whoie By Councilman Baxrrr—To bave Twenty-third streot, from Third to Lexington avenues, lighted wih gas. Re- ferred. By Couneitman Krvsank—To have a*gas lamp ot (he foot of Houston street river Re'erred. By the same—To have side walk in Fourth streot, be- twien Aver ues C and D, repaired. Heferred. By Coun ilman ¢ crRY—To have pavements in Thirsieth street. botweon tixt and Nizth avenues, repaired. Re- ferred, Conncitman Conxox—To have Thirty sevontl strent, 4 Kleventh avenue paved, under een Broad bie d the civee ip of the Street Commissioner Referred. sg covmeilaen Nenru—That Crovon water pipes be laid in J21stetreet from the third avenne a distance of four bundred feet west of the s.mo. Refe-red. COMMITTER OF THE WHOL. The Beard in cowmittos of the wasle, took up the vepert of the Fir ance Committee, asking to ba discharget from the further consideration of tho petition of E. S vltby for correction of Croton water tex. The report was referred back co the Finance Comittee, REPOKTS “Of the Committee on the Fire Department, concarrigg with the Beard of Aldermen to disband Engine Co. No. 81. Referred 10 Committee of tho Wholo. Of the same in faver of providing a new location for Rose Yo 24 Referred to the same Of the eame, in favor of providing a new location ond boure for the use of Huse Co 41. Neferred to the «ama. Of the sane, with on ordi.ence extenling the fire limits, Heterred to the same. The eudject of the Brick Church property was made a +pecial order for Fridsy eveving, and the corooration aovertising for Wednesday evening, in committec. After transacting « wi Brogan of business, of no particular impo.tance, the Board then adjourned. Brooklyn City News. Tre Kixes Country Court oy Grxmaat, Sessions. —This crurt re aseusbied yesterday, b-fore Judge Muore ad Justices Melygh ond -tryker, when the following Grand Sury was ¢ nel @ li Architeli K ‘es-erole, foreman; Cliss. Mutthers, Jumes Braham, John Burtis, Cato A. Buren. Alex D& videon, Daviel Wrigh*, Alex Tomeey, Levi Grown, Juha Risbartsen, Vhemas Booth, Thomas ‘eylor, Syivaans Whie, Pe'er J. Perry stephen HK. Caloone, efeing, Jonithat | «gers, John White, Horatio A. Cac- ver amt Nmorhy 6. 3. Axdell. After the etiarge of the Court, which embraced tho facts ceually 8 ated, the jury re‘ire', and Patriek McKin wey was placed on trial on an Indictment charging him ith aarsultiog & man named U'Nel, wihastone ‘ihe osswult, as al ros took plice on tho 4th of June last, ia Male ttreet, oo the occasion of tae first atriet pron sh. fog riot. ‘The offence was clearly proved by ths officer who mado the arrest avd others, and tha defendant was convicted; wherexpon he was renvenced to the poniten tiary for the term of two months, at bard labor. Wiltiem Powerhaus, sged 27 yorrs, a native of New York City, wae then tried on an indictment for barg\ry tm the «roond degros. was convicted of the ol in the third cegree, and was sentenced to two year: con: firement in the State prison Jobn slater and I'rancis Anderton were arrnignsd—the firet for re voting, aud the second for assaait, with intent to bill. They ple-ded not guilty, the Court adjourned till next fuosday, at 10 o'clock’ A. AUN Over by THE Cars —Yesterday Teiecuosih me hoy vamed Thomas , Whose parents resi: No. 27 Jamesutreet, was run’ ovor by one of the Hs of the G: wien lice, while com: down Fulton +tr By, pert that died. Isa pears the: er attempted t of the platform while Theat wes in mot a slipping, fell uader tho PyCKING A totaly you Burke was arrested on Thaadage nant b Foster, of the First Hiswiet Polles, joi A awl re rat James Dorion, whlie coming thoes obe of the Pakeor boats, He bad abetracted twenty fivo dollars, mu tof which was recove He was comaultied to auswer. Pmiapmriun Sant. 6 —(Reporwa Fry Firat Board—8600 Nimington Th te 8734; 1100 41 Pint coun 0's 8 10000 West Fiadetghia dou Oa, 81 80 shares Penns lracia RR, oaeb, Beate ra tjman named Thome & Thomas Rendiog Rv, cash, $44; 150 do, +60 Genet ve n% Penn fownabts Bak, 82; pes Boards—80 Leth 6's, 04; 100 shapes heading Ak, 05, 34 My. Seoond Boord~—$1000 City F's, 874g; 1000 Pew KR Con 6’a, ots City RK 6+, S& Dele, 87, $000 d>, Hompfiela, 88 70, 98 shares Lahigh Now. 6434: 8d Keaoing RR, 24%; 8 Little schaylaill RR, bé, 48; 18 fic. rie Canal, b5, Tis; 190 do, 11%. After’ Brard—~236 shares Fenn RR, 44% ; 100 Reading RR, b5, 8414; 100 do, bwn, 345; 50 Moris Canal, 11). Mart ot stoaiy, 2000 800 City Gas 6's Fires tn new York. THE FIRE IN FLATT STREAT. ocoupied by Mr. Thy mas Douglas, manufacturer of Ame- rican hardware. The firemen were quickly on the spot, but some time elapsed before they eould ascortain the exact whereabouts ef the fire, which appeared to be in tbe rear part of the said loft. Ultimately the @remen chopped a hole through the roof, and the fames were then soon ex a uished. The dam. dove to the bly about ire Hi amount to about $100, aad to being in the following firo i eases sone: nies, in sume of $5,000 wae aol "Htaa, Aartford, Brooklyn, City, ‘Commercial, Fanover, Howard, Je‘Ter- son, Manhattan, Merchants’, Mercant Megs, The resent to be a awe code ——enal Dini iy ed Wak Sek ees, seems ween two ree o’clock yesterday an alarm of fire was sounded ‘or the Sixth district, caused by bs hor og is ligh.ing of some gas in the basement of No. 44 Clinton street Che premises, it seems, aro occupied by Mr. Houry C. Loeftier as a glass and lamp store, and a ing Mun wa: re sairing some defect ee tbe gas fixtures near the metre, whea on ap- plying slight, a body of the North River, East River, and the Clin- the fire appsars at \bli¢, Citizens’, a of the ed took dre and before it could be extinguished, a ‘light dam: age was done to the woodwork in tho immediate violaliy of the gas Tas flames, however, were put cut with a few pailso water. The damage will amount to about $15 Cust Russell of the Thirteenth wee was old on the spot, aud aided inextinguishing the bore ALARM. The alerm in the Sixth district ‘at nine o'clock last evening, was false. Asrival of a Pameh Omicer fcom Bombay + Shortly after ono o’clock yesterday morning a fire was : | ~ntamtaatamenaenite a TWO WEEKS LATER FROM CALIFORNIA ‘The Yeliow Fever in Savannah. ALARMING ACCOUNTS—CLOSING OF STORES AND ‘ BOTELS—SUSPENSION OF A DAILY PAPER. Our accounts from Savannah are indeed deplorable. ‘The Daily Courier, as we announced by telegraph, has auspended publication, in comeequence of not being able to procure hands. The following account we find in the Savannah Georgian of the 6th inst. :— For some time we have added little to the sad tale daily told by the interment reports, of the destruction that is wasting our population—carrying death to so many homes, anguish to so may hearts. Disappoint-d in our first cautiously expressed anticipatio of wa early abatement of the mortality, hls bra remained sileat, in the hope that each succeeding da: id enable us-to give Penk tigats assurance that the diseas was disap searing from our midst. alas! that hope is still deferred. In propection to the rekecat a in the city, wo have reason fear that the number of sick at greater while we write than at any previous period. Yet we have no reason to change the opinion already ex; pressed, that the epidemic is not of a peculiarly pes Aa t type. It is not : cessarily) fatal character of the disease s0 mach as the immense number of those afflicted, that makes the pic. ture now presented by the city +o dark and appalling. Under the treatment now generally pursued, we acs con+ vinced that with poysicians sufficiently numerous to af. ford prompt advice, and nurseg to give adoquate atten. tion, the mortality might ve reduced, almost imme diately, one balf, perhaps three-fourths. Bat with the cases certainly not diminieching, while the energies and strength of the physicians are necessarily failing, we know not when to expect to sey the end, or even any im- portant improvemeat. An might he cero the business of the city is al- most suspended. he ‘leading an’ largest hovel—the Pulaski—closes Lina. It ia intimated, we hope er ropeonsly, that the Marshall, next in size, will soon do the like. Half the boarding hoases, our owo among the number, have heon deserte i by their propristers. Our reporter tells us that he has cousted west of Bull street, ninety: five busiuess bouses, all shut up. “Closed on account of sicknoss,”” moots tbe eye at every turn as we walk through our beautiful.city Yes, + beautiful’? for never seemed Its outward aspect more lovely, For a bo locks upon its squares, mauled with groen—up on its trees, in all the riciness of their foliege, with soft breezes sweeping through their beaache:—ah > can reul- ize that he is in the mitst of death! It in ooly as the hearse, with its mourntul srein, slowly paseea, thes he is aroused to the sad reality :-— ‘The number of intormon’s on the 4tn inst, were nise- teen, of which trelve were subjects of yellow forar Tao following table shows the progress of the «isesse eincc the 27th ult Int'men's. FA Fev 3 ee MEETING AT THE ASTOR KOUSE. A wneeting of the citizens of anah was Weld tas night at the Astor House, to devies means for the relief of the sick and poor now suffering from the prevailing epider ic in Savannah. The meeting was caliei to or’er at § o'clock, about fifteen gentlemen being prevwnt. The deliberations wer. in private. ut most likely sone means were deci‘ed upon, which will oe mae tnowa, to accomplish the object of the meeting. Coroner's inqucet. MORE ROWDYISM—HORKIBL.G HOMICIDE IN THE SIXTH WaRD. On Sunday night last a gontiowaa named Joha Brats, a lawyer by profession, while in company with a Mc. Mo- Bride, pursuing their way home, No. €9 Bayard strest, were attacked bya prrcel of rowdies at the co:ner of Vott and Bayard streets, where they were beatea very severely. During the struggle betwen the rowdies and the sseailed yaity, Mr. Brady was stunned by blow on the head, and on attempting to rise fcom the side- walk fell,down the collarway of the house on this cornur, injuring himself ebverely. On beiug picked uy he was found to have sustuiced very severe injuries about the lower part of tho spine, Ho was immodiatey conveyed to bis residence, a few doory from the sceue of the dis- turbencs, and attended to ty a medieal man Daring ihe weck he appesrod to be convalescent, @ud ou Chure Cay right be was, it was thought, so far regovered that he got uy and ate heartily of nome fresn fish coush: by Mr. MoBiide. At au early hour yesterday morning, on Mr. McBrito’s awavening, he found the uv- evaced dying. He rent for docter, tut medical aid was of no ure a8 be died in about ap bour afterwards An inques: was held upon the body of the deceased csterdey afternoon by Corover Wilhelm, when tue fol- Wooing tertinony was a€duce: :— Wiunifred MoBride being duly swora, deposed that abe wasaunt of thedecearté; | have snown him twenty-nive eox8; he was a marritd man ané has a wife living at ‘ew Rocheile, he was e lawyer, doing bu-\ness coraer of Brosdway and Ceonard wtrest, aad boarded at ©lyrenco's Hotel, corcer of Broadway apd Walker street; the de ceese3 come to my house ou sucday night with his cou- sia, my son; 1 was at homme on Monday, but saw him on the evening he came home; both 0! his eyes were black ened and swoilen co much that he eou'd no! open them; be also had a cut on bis tempio, and oompisined of a prin in bis back; he had sent fora doctor tue sam. dey and wes visited by him caiiy until ie died; he wa- geaccnity up a}! dey and would heve goue out, ouly his Leyes gore #0 bluch; hesaid be kad been struck in the « roe" b goine porrons uninown ta him on Saaday right, be too his mea. ; he atesome fresh Ash, bread wad brt'er, supper the nigh; before ne died, and ’ ccenpied the evening ic writing between 10 and 11 o’elock he cou, lained of # ovina in his bead and back, and went to b~ 7 oevek ta rext morning her son, Mr. eBride, eam ty hee and said he thought deceasod was dylog; [ weat instenily and found bim speechless; the coctor was rout for, bat be died in a few minute es WeBride, Sunday night last, in mipeoy with f ceased, whom be met at the corner Waiker streets, they nrocemted through Sort, throawsh ‘Mott to Bayard ttreet; abont half way io the centre of the block in Bayard’ street, we met two men ly’ @m the sidewalk, with their hed across to the curbstone; deceased passed bt box and them, and I " stepped over th ‘sed them one of them said we hac bette tT owy on Facey is thiuk I made some reply say what; before we had passed ten or 4 feet Mook ol them jamoed up and cam» afte turned around when I saw them om. ‘andi enid not want to bave omy difficulty wity 1 | they struck at me; I, at the tims ga | them a blow which Knocked him down, sud then some one struck me from behind and sianned ms; deceased stood @ littie way off aad raid a woman ha! hit hie with # stone in the face; deconsed tried to ward off the bows that were aimed at him, atone tims while he was in a stooping position, some one struck him on the heal ; deoeened cried out “My God, and what do you do this | for, we bave done nothing to you," whereupon some ove | came up and struck him fo the néok, which stuomed bm ‘ano knocked bim down; while trying to got up, he (ell | de a cellar avd ¢ut his head and injuced hs back, | witnees ran down after bim and wi'li (he assiefaace of ‘ peighvor got him to the house No. 49 Bayard etrest; when we got him there and pat him to bel he did aot seem to be intoxteated: deceased unt witness had tvo | glisees of liquor each; om Friday morping deceased died. Messrs. Uhl ard Simmons ma‘o o post mortem exarat ration, aad found verlons marss of viclenze upon the they gave it as their opi on that the deosased cid tvews the injaries thus resolv } The inquest wt adjourned for the a doy Toe Tart. | Couns, L. 1.—Trotines ~Teiday her 8, 1854. Mateh $600, mila heats, best three in firs. g Tom “ham br. m. Lady Jom to wag nt B Howirickson sames | reoerved forfett; H. Wocdeal axon. iti—paid forfeit. fifty passengers, acd $1,022,000 in specie, which left Sen Francisco on the 16th ult., in the steamship Cortes. By this arrival we have dates from San Francisco to the 16th of August, and two weeks later intelli- gence from alt parta of Caiifurnia, Oregon, and Wasbington Territo: ies. Toe following is the specie let of the Star of the : $ Co, ca Wells, j 3,700 & . nce & Co. . f ABBINAL OF THE STAR OF THE WEST. Over Two Willen in Gold Bust, INTERESTING ITEMS WROM THE PACIFIC. DESTRUCTION OF A MOUNTAIN TOWN BY FIRE, ee Rates of Wages in Sam Francisco. AGRICULTURAL AND mInEa NEWS: POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE. Arrival of an Ovorland Surveying Party, tare association, & supears, MARRIAGES, BIRTHS AND DEATHS. nee MARKETS, &e., &., &. The steamship Star of the West, Capt. E. L. Tin- klepaugh, arrived yeateriay morning from San Jaan del Norte, having performed the passage in.eight Gays and six hours, The Starof the West brings four hundred and lohvston & Lowden... 10,800 5,175 1,021,996 SPECIE IN THE STBAMSHIP OREGON VIA PANAMA TO ARRIVE. Page, pecs & Co. 19. +. $419,000 00 289,337 63 146,300 00 40,000 00 50,000 00 24,835 00 18,003 00 10,300 00 8,600 00 8. Care, Ma-opndray & Co... Bpasta, & Nevhoase. Wyckoff, & Co. . Ziel, Bertheau & Co Morgan, Hathaway & Cv. Hussey, Bond & Total.. $1,005,176 Died at aca, on board the Star of tho West, S: 7, of congestion of the liver, Moaes Wells, of I. mazoo, Mich. Among the passengers aro Gov. Davis,of Ora zou; Lieut. B. 8. Beckwith, Capt Morris, Lieut. Baker, De @chuli, and Mr. Snyder, of the Centeal Pacids Rail road surveying purty; Major Heictzleman, Lieut McLean, end Lieut. O'Donnell, of Second infautry, United States Army. The Nicategua Transit Company "g steamer Sicrra Nevada artived-at Sau Francisco three days pre vious to the sailing of the Cortes. Of the Heads, at San Francisso, the Cortes met the clipper sh'p Star, King, of Boston, bound in. The Isthmus is represented as boing remarkahly bealthy, ond the transit of the passenyers by this steamer was made in thirty-five houra. The British war schooner Bermuds, and the British mail steamer Magdalena, wero at Sin Juea. Everything was quiet at San Juav. We are indebted to Mr. S. Broadhead, purser of tie Starof the West, and to the expresses of Nessrs. Adams & Co., Wells, Fargo & Co., and J. W. Salli- vav, for files of California papers and other favors. Since the sailing of tip steamer of the lst of August, the markets of California bave continued much depiessed, and most of the staples are de- clining. The stocks of merchandise aro kept full by consiant arrivals, and the demand from the country is slight. active. The following items we take from the summary of the Alta California:— Judge Farwell had arrived ia San Francisco, and taken his seat on the bench of the United Stutes Land Commission. 5,165 82 The spirit of speculation is not UD. —S== PRICE TWO CENTS, ; = on bas been @ great exci'ement at tha Mission as eontiticn, ‘the neo informs ts thas an Garhael, a report having got abroad that an ae pomgen: the count y, h.? could pt 8d beem made to deseorate the Roman Ca Lake Valley at least one sit tan, Ue = be ne char 2 ry scien my hed Irishmen loft Sin og ar orettore travelled, with anvatange Francisco for *hat pi othing serious resulted, | ab0e water, grass te entire Three Frenc. Men were drowned at Rocky Rapids oath aat Be would ensure the ag freedom near Negro Bar, . @ the 29th July, all insects, whle crosing Hary's river ae ee Senora Antonia Higuera and her two dhildren, | _ After the Humbolét the party of have b been brutally a. urdered red near San Jose, and an | at “a = oe eg egy tae to the Sie-ra dian boy who was w veda one iS examined ip this rai reference ta Political Jateiltgence. their feasibility for the line of the Pacific Rsilroad. Political matters romain Much tue same as at the Ail of these lie to the northward of Noble's Pass, departure of the previous» Seamer. The Sac Fran. | ¢xcept the latter, which 8 im the number cisco Times and Transcript ..serts with much om- etme mone efal surveys, all of the fidence that Messrs. Latham aad MoDougail, who were nomizated for re-election’ to Congress, will, u; on their retarn to nia, rere from the con- test, and that by this measure the: above routes are party anys will once more bevome a harmonioa#. unit, Ox tae | on, bat wot Hercif ‘wsistathatall pea P euntaie have been 428 of a Com ve op, looks upon the chances ae altogetber G revor whigs carrying the State, unless tte Noow No bing movement snould inter‘ere thersmitn. Taw bas orgaated in Sao Francisco, Sacramento, » Mar. ville, aod severe] otber of tbe interior towns, aud ifis repre- bd: Mad a formidable both in numbers and in- jmence. A large mass gay of the moderate men of the democratic part; id at Sa eee ia fe mt of thefOreans ote, on the eveuing of tne 6:h August. Ite object was to effect a union of the party throughout the State, if possible. ‘There is a prospect that a fourth set of Cozgres- tional nomiostions will be made in Califorais by the free soil party, who #ill nomioate mev oppose t to the Nebraska bill, and in favor of its repeal. The Jackson Sentine says: [tis ramoved that a loége of Know Notbings has been started in <his foes a that they already number over 100 member. The Ruslan: Our Doors. A-whole fleet could net produce more commotion on our coast than coes the Rassiun frigate Diana. Rumor has had it that she was enteriog the Heads with a whole train ef prizes almost every day for the past fortnight; then it was :epo:ted she and an English vessel were “chasing each other, off Ban Diego; and again, it was alleged she was to eail for Sitka. By tne arrival of the Restless, we learn that sbe eiude1 the Britiah frigate that f. illowed ber out of the harbor of Honolulu—turaed upon her course,.and put into port again, where she no sooner received the nan of the declaration of war than she tet sail again. Twodays after her depart: ure, @ fine British ebip, wie fall car, reaptd Honolulu. Luckily the inna did not iall in with her, sithocgh it is known that she was cruising on the Islands for three weeks after her depa ture Rot Honolulu: since then she has had time to run over to our coast. Ste was looking for her consort, the Aurora, and the British frigate Piqae, which had 2,690 | been sent ont by the Admiralty parporely. cap tare her. The Pique, it is suid, is in pursuit c Diana, but she wilt find it more easy to parsue a to captare, for while she carries but forty guns, the has sixty.— San Francisco ‘Herald. ‘The C: The tidings received from every portion of the State under cultivation, says the Aita Californisn, are highly encc waging. With trifling exceptions a bounteous yield b3s repaid the husbandmad for nis lubor. Although farmers tave beou ‘or some time engt ged in harvesting their crops, the work can barély be put down as half completed. It mnst bo remembered by friet ds abroad, thas California is the safest .ortion of the Union for harvesting, a3 the { entire absence of rain during this portion of tre Isr, allows amole time for the collection and pre: eervetion of the projuctions of the soil. Tho only causes for unx'e.y Or Care, are that the grain may not becom and fail fron tae hn or tawt the muy burs tt 0,8 before ¢ Heo! Serious se u#pe bax bead nein several dactatoes by rea- five, etterbe iceolully ortuten donaily ssarted. The preveleace of westerly winds goon fans sb¢ oral orapark inte fixines, aad then wafte them, with H Miss Lawa Keene had left vory abruptly in the | bark Mary A. Jon.s, for Sydney. Tbe departure of Judge Hoffman for the Atlantic States left the luq business of the United Seates District Court in a condition extremely disagreeable to both attorneys and clerks: The Marshal, being urable to act without a court, discharged his deputies. The announcement tha‘ the United States Land Commissioners were anab'e to agree upon the city's claim had a very injurious effect upon bisiveas affairs in San Francisco. Aman named Blaxton started from Oakland on | encour: the 12th of August for Iadependence, Missouri, on a bet of $4,500 that he would porform the jouraey iv eleven cays. To win his wager he should have veached Invependence onthe 23d ult. There ise line of tclegravb dir ct from that place to this city, and if the trip had been accomplished within the eS time sprcified, vo abould ptobably bave learned the fact. M». Bloxton has no doubt takon a rest at Salt Lake City. ‘Tbe claim of Son Raman, in Contra Cos'a county, has been confirmed. Tho claim for tie: Rincio Canada de Guadaloupe and for portions of tae Pal. kas Ranch has been rejected. Among the rejected claims were those for the municipal lavds of Santa Barbara and S2n Luis Obispo. dhewe rapidity over the land, coast mtag everything in Wer pei. With all the abuniant yield, ta farmer is compelled to complain of baed times, a the presen e of ae overaupol, of foreign grain aad flonr, depresses prises betow the cost of’ growing, entailing heavy loases to toe geover. The whest crops iu Tulare county are spoken of as being extremely light. The S:e-amento Union states that since they commenced ae ing on the ranch of Me-s:s. ven, ow Putah Creek, Yolo coua- fendens, Capt. Cicry, measured ton eres, forty roda equate, bau'ed the wheat tothe mac hine, tnreshed and weighed it. Tho weight was forty thousand aud fonr pounds, witien, at sixty pounds to the busiel, gives sixtywix and two-thirds busiels of wheat to the ecre. This 1s ala ger vield per acre than we huve ever kaown taken off the sare quantity of jand. Tho potate crops are sufferiog terribly from the drougttof the psst winter, and the quantity will fail shor. at least one-sixth. Alameda county, al though » few of the farme:s may realize a rich yield, will not generally prove remauerative to her tillers The Mines. The vews from the various parts of the mining region is general! cheering. Tu the dry diggiags » want of water Is ult, but the miners thee are wait- ing patiently for the rainy season, being satiy lo pay their exponses uatil that time. Lo the part of the mines where tie water is conveyei by firmes, the miners ace doing well. New diggings have recently been discovere! fn different portions of the couctry, ard oscasional “lucky strikes” wre made, ag of old. fhe people of Califorcia ore pretty tolerably well sati that the e is no fear of the mines giving out just at pre- gent. At Sarta Barbara the whole town was in a state of excitement, ceased by a receot discovery of rich within eighcy miles of that place, A party of three Mexicans firss y sboat two weeks since. [n Ava 7e weeks they auc din takivg ont $480 ia scale, of couse goid. Tary returned to the Pueblo of Sauta Barbara after provwions, which haviog procared, they siarted again for the aew placers accompanied by a_large vomber of citizens The average yield 1 dieu) to each man has thus far been twalve do- ad and nothing but the common rocker has becn use The Shasta Covrier contains statements and cor: respouden’efrom yurious mining localities ia the northern portion of tre State, whic give not oaly ing but extravagant accouata of the sa cess of the miner The loca ities most nigh! spoken ofare Big Fist avd Canaiiian Baron Tria ty miver, and Sosti's Bar in Siskiyou coaaty. [n- stances are mentioned of parties tating out a pound A polda day to tte hand. Phe river claims are a be; eginwing to be worked. @ has he mnt at Santa Barba iacovert=s at that place. i discovered a gold bearing quartz lead in the y of San Barnardino, Arotier b. ulder worth about $100, vas been ta- ken ont of the Arcwlia Tunnel at Minuerota. A geo'leman from Forest City, informs tie Ne a Journal that the Dutch Company took oat a ea'ly pure gold, weighing 9L onnces, and $17 10 per cance, is worth $1,613 40. atdsame gol wet, of irregular shape, i containing apparently Bot cher impare matter, k’s Creek, in Maricow, ft Tove Hock Farm Digger tribe of Icdians a few | had heen thrown amongst a pile of atone, in remo years ago numbered over five hucdred : a! pressat there are but fifteen living. Two Frenchmen, while sailing on the mill-pond abcve Foster’s Bar, on Suuday morning, were drowred by the capsizing of the boat. Their names were Henri Langle, agod 22 years, and Edenard, | aged 19 years. 4 We learn that a band of robbers has heen organ ized pear Sovora, and a part of them have gone on to Marysville for the purpose of murdering and rob- bing, There are a number of Joaquin’s old band with them. Salt has been discovered in Los Angelos county | -cetward agal ina iake about seventsen miles from Lor Angeles. ing whi h it was disc: vered hy ita weight alone, at Shasta by Lieut. B., and it good pri es,” mise pra opa i pe eaennes re aud rg amount receiv yperty” a hborhood of $5,000, ar rr ‘ga cut. Morris, of the escort, who necompanted the ure ing party, and who was aacounced iby is arrived in towa some-deys ago, haa returned to Furt Readlug f the purpose of over the jospretoane to Tol. Wrignte Lieut. Beckwith, who has been absent on his arduous official pre are to have no «ligh re destiny of the race. Fire at Bidwell, ANOTHER MOUNTAIN TOWN GONE. A fire broke out in the town of Bidwell, in-Rvangd? building, corner of Water and Miner oe on the 2lst-August, and swept: every ty with feastal Velucity. Not a single b iba as hill was saved. There are but six. bal the Court House, on the hill. taat Age colle the Record Office also remaios. The silohe, pletely cestro.ed. The fire broke ont at Llo’clock, ais 12 o’ dock the iowa was naught bu; smoking the Butle Reoord publishes the- following list of Bancroft. & Thomp- Pratt's Exchange, $1.500 teeeeseeeee: $12,000 Brown & Spee, ++ 1,500 Hoss & Larcoms, *12000 ‘TN ne 1000 J. Gluknauf, 0, 200 Joves,...... + Gor + 100 Fer 6.000: it. T, Vam Nordea, 600 W. F ‘Wiiliams,.... 4000 Matheron & Oon ...- 3,508 Dickinson Cnerereranr {4 G. Lamb,. 8,000 poriac e Lowia & Harris. 8:0 0. M. Evans, Newcomb & Co ,. Carey & Co ,., Mussnil & Dodge, Shane, Total, ....,. $102,000 From Los Angvles. Mr. Kirkpatiick, who bas ant reached Los An- geles, by the Gila route, fursishes the Southern Californian wit the following interesting pw ti sa- lars of the immigratioa, cutile, roads, Iad:aas, &., on the route:— I started from San Antonia, Texas, on tho first of ao 1864, in company with a party of stuck dro- from ‘that acertou of the State. From San Antonia to Et Pato, the road is an excellest ane, tbe main portion of the way leading over a high’ ory end graveliy table land, constituting perhaps the heat natural rvad in the world. For t vo hundred and fifty miles grasa and water of a fine qaslity abonnd; but, for the the Jast four hundred yg: of tae route, grass becomes scirce, and witer is not to be found im sufficient quantities for the stock pre ‘This territory is at prese st iufested by most bold, daring and eanyerons of area fodian ‘mibes —the Mus airce Apactes, The train sith which I travelled wae surrounded by them, an4 et »p; Pe = the reed, and we bad every prospect 0 & nog battle; but finally, the d fieulty wus comorom! by our copsenting to trade them toba‘co for atkins. A cutie drover from Texas, who had pre ceded us, way not sof rtanate. Erefer to M°. Had, of Ban Avtonio, whose oarty was waylaid ia s canon, known as the “Engle Springs,” being taken by surprise, bad two of his men killed, acd one handred and seventy six of his cattie driven off by the Indians, F-equent cifficuities have taken place with tmmi- grant parties, as I bave sicce lvacoed, and toe ches were pretty severely handled by meet an From E! Paso the road is for the greater part an excellent wagon way, similar in stractare aud quelity to that elresdy described. Some diff cult passes ip the mountsing contribute the exsey- vione to this rems:k. We met with no serioas ob- strnetions from the Iadians, bat our stock saffsred teverely from wentot waterand grass, Tae general obamover of the country is that of an bac age bigh, dry aod sterile. T @ Santa Craz of Stora is the oasis of this Sabsra—a beastital, for- tie anc lovely va ley, but marrow and enclessd lofty ane sterile mountains. Here a e soveral Mi pen vilieges sud afew ranches. Te villages are San‘a Cruz, at the eastern extremity of the valley, Tobac and tueson, Toess Mexicans live in-extrome and pe petual dread of the Apaches, their deadly onemies—. epredations and murders are coatinually perpetiated upon toem by tho Indians, Thev are much elated by the news of tne purchase of Socora bs the Un ted States. We reached the Gila at the Pino villages. We learn from the Californian that ex- periments mace at the Salt Lake near Los Angeles during the pant week, inGicn‘ed in 00 instances yield of leas toap 33} por cent. The water is a; this e. son of the year constantly increasing ta consequence of evepora ion, and b ing enti nirely ale ccpnectea with the sea. Tbe proprietivs, Megara, Beil, Henry. Hance k, aad A. A. Olapk, are oxtensive ar.avgements, nod will be able > aap ly tLe markets of Oregoo avd California with a supe- nor article of salt, two hundred Prd centc hi od then present prices. By tie Let of be tpn | hurd ed bushels dey will be manah facta ed, ane hy the 15th, vessels can be supplied with A aon We preosct for ench ose of the proprietors a large ortare, and for tais ection of couuéry, @ material aOvaLlage. Sverrcrove xo Morr —We Jearn by the arrival of he Sovtheroer that there wae no fonudation f r the report brought by the See Bird, of two vessels of way raving been seen approwching each other off San Diego. Pouitics mx Los Anagiss.—The Los Angeles Star places at the bead of its columos the name of its ea foce being nearly all covered wito a black | Messrs, Der ver, Herbet end Leake, nominated by mineral substance. Arzival of Lieut. Beckwith, of the Overland sucveying Party. On Thursday evening, Aus ust 3, says the Sacra- mento Union, Lieut. Beckwith, of t)¢ overiaad ear veylug party, arrived in this city from Salt Lake ; City, via the Bansboldt and Fort Reading, having jeff the former place on the 6th of May, aad tie jatter on Teesday last. at. Be keith, with hia aesiatan’ surveyors aod attachds to t 6 corps, con visting in nil of sixty sonia, arrived at the Great Salt Lake O:ty ia November, 1863. In April of toe present year, tho Lientenwnt with his party wont us fa the Greea river, oo @ aa | Reyne | tour, On the Glo of May the company le't * Lake, and struck off due westward, sume forty A company’bas been organized for the purpose of | miles to the southward of tho regularly travelled monufsctaring it. An American named Reed was brutally murdered in the viinity of Los Angeles, Several compantes of overland emigrants hai or rived in Nevada doring the week ending Augu | Gh. They report that the émigration th's season wil! be larger than any previous one. A German by the name of Hofman wea shot on | the evening of August ist, by a Mexican named | Cruz, at Mariposa, On the morning of Jaly 3ist,@ man was fond | fonod aa abundance urdered within thre» miles of 34a Luls Oviapa. | obstrctions fiom wh Califormia trail. About seventy tive miles this side of the valley the party came wpa a syltd granite boulder or bill, some fifteen o- eighteen hanéred fees in height, in which was foaad a clear cool spring of water. After leaving this potnt, they fourneyed op direct. ly to the Humboldt, which they reacaed in adout two weeks, being delayed a dey or so ia removing nd, All along tae Ham: boldt there ia the moge feasible route imaginable fr @ radroad, and according to Lieutenant Ba kwith's ta emont, surveys woud be almost superitucaa All the way from alt Lake to Caleforota the of grasa aad water for vheir ttle and stock, whi Patiy | as coon ws busines & agai feeurMe oh arrived st Poct Reading ta Austraiia-—will alee the Majority Democratis Convention. Deranrvne of Tae New (Notan AGENT FOR THE traon.— Ts “4 port says that Col. Thomas J. Henly, the new! ated Suveriutendest of Indian Af faire fo. salitoe nia, started on the Slat of Jaly for the Tejon in opmpany with Li otensat Beale. His stay at the Tejon will be a ah rt one, owing to hia having to return to the north,in order to s resery tion in that region, where he intends ag on the same basis aod plan adopted by Mr. we. How Tngy Dispose or Inptans.—-Two Indians were fonod omardered in the s ose of jist week, aod were dumped into te common re- ceptacle for stray earcassese All these mardera are asertbed fo the perty grog 820p8 Licensed by the Conseil, Anetber Arrival fom Cnina=-More Disease. (From the oo ‘rauclaeo Herald, Aug te i . The U inese ship Uxebaasé (formerly the British ship Tuenbadeur) arrived yeste day from Whampoa, with 613 passengers, woom are x eyo have Sled on the po unmber , ane The o seine as that whieh senpera of the Linertag trendy heen @ild oy this p Marshal for carrying an excess of 8 oO is srned off #0 many of Ove Caines wh by ~ United iin the alia ‘wo tore—toe Livertad be be. ght we bapa $008 Btstes District Court,