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Sacramento Transcript

Thursday January 23, 1851 

ITEMS FROM THE BAY

There is no doubt of the election of Dr. ROBINSON and Mr. CRONISE for Aldermen and Mr. GIBBS for Assistant, at the election at San Francisco on Monday.

ESCAPE FROM PRISON - John Manuel POSE, confined upon a charge of stealing $2100 from Joseph GRIFFITHS at Sacramento City, escaped from the prison at that place, and is supposed to be in this city.

He is described as being five feet, nine inches in height, dark complexion, full face and small eyes. A reward of $500 is offered for his apprehension - [Casserly’s Balance. 

AN ELOPEMENT - A woman named Mrs. GREEN, left the protection of her husband to share the fortunes of a man named Edwin CARROLL. They took the steamer for Sacramento yesterday afternoon. A few moments after the departure of the boat, the husband made his appearance on the wharf, but finding himself belated, philosophically concluded to made the best of it, and let time, instead of a bullet convince them of their baseness. 

A LARGE SEAL - A seal, weighing from 150 to 200 pounds was being exhibited on the Long Wharf, last Saturday. It was shot on the coast by a hunter, and brought to this city as a curiosity. It is singular that these inhabitants of the frozen regions should find their way to this latitude. - Pac. News.

About ten o’clock last night, two desperadoes disguised as Indians, attacked a gentleman named WATKINS, near the corner of Powell and Union streets. Their object was without doubt, robbery, and perhaps murder, but their designs were frustrated by the coolness and courage of Mr. W., who instantly presented a Colt’s revolver and fired, wounding one of his assailants severely, whereupon the other took to his heels. The wounded rascal managed to escape by crawling beneath an untenanted house near by until Mr. W. departed. Our citizens, such as leave occasion to traverse north beach or vicinity late at night, would do well to always be well prepared to give any one who may assail them a warm reception. - [Casserly’s Balance. 

STEAMER MAJOR TOMPKINS BLOWN UP!!!

One Man Instantly Killed, and Several Wounded!

We are much indebted to Mr. S.G. WHITE, Messenger of the prompt Express of Freeman & Co., and Mr. AYERS of the New England hotel, for the following particulars of a most melancholy disaster.

The Steamer Major Tompkins, on her downward trip to San Francisco, last evening, when she was thirty miles below this city, burst her boiler, wounding and scalding some six or eight persons, and killing instantly one man belonging to the boat.

The steamer West Point took most of the passengers to San Francisco, the New World took the remainder to our city this morning. The disaster occurred about half past four o’clock yesterday afternoon.

Dr. GOUCH, who was on board of the Tompkins, and Mr. BRANNAN rendered every assistance in their power. Capt. J.D. PHILLIPS, mate of the Tompkins, and D.S. KELSEY, Captain of the West Point, and Captain Hutchings, of the New World, deserve more than a passing notice - also, J.S. ARNOLD, Mr. GAMBLE, the steward of the N. World, Dr. HALSE and Mr. &yers, (sic) who rendered valuable assistance.

The following is a list of the killed and wounded so far as our informants were able to procure them:

KILLED

Edward Tracy, fireman.

WOUNDED

Edward Lamb, badly scalded.

Richard Waters, do do.

Mr. Taylor, clerk. do do.

Mr. Johnson, of the Magnolia, badly sc’l’d

Dr. C.T. WHITTIER, do do

J.R. Lunt, slightly scalded..

Edw. Giles, do, do

____ Orr, do, do

H.A. WHITING, do, do

S. Cunningham, do, do

Immediately after the disaster, and whilst Dr. Whittier was suffering the most intense pain, and all excitement on board the Tompkins a villain stepped up and took off his gold watch, and was about appropriating. It. He was however seen by a person, and the watch was re-taken.

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Sacramento Transcript

Saturday January 25, 1851 

(Note: this is a partial article about a steamer explosion)

Some of the machinery had become disarranged, causing her steam head to be blown off. The following are the sufferers, as furnished to us:

E.D. TRACY, fireman, dead.

Richard MARTIN, of London, Eng., dead.

Badly Scalded or Burnt

Richard WATERS;

Simeon CUNNINGHAM, 2d engineer;

Edward LAME, fireman;

Edward LYONS, of Mississippi;

Mr. ORR, of Michigan;

Dr. C.T. WHITTIER, of Sacramento;

Mr. JOHNSON, of the Magnolia, Sacramento;

Slightly Scalded or Hurt

H.A. WHITING,  Andrew MOWH, of Miss.

E.D. WHITTLE,  Edward FALLON,

J.R. LUNT  Edward GILES,

Mr. TAYLOR, 2d clerk.

We are happy to state that all those brought to this city by the New World, are recovering as rapidly as could be anticipated. We believe that Dr. WHITTIER, Mr. WHITING and Mr. LUNT, were the only persons brought up the night of the disaster.

Dr. CROUCH, of Marysville, was active in administering to the wants of the scalded, being on board of the West Point, which steamer was close at hand when the accident happened.

Every attention was afforded by the officers of both the New World and West Point. 

STOCKTON VALLEY ITEMS

VALUABLE DISCOVERY - A great sensation has been created in this place, by the discovery by Mr. BOURS, of this city, of another vein of metalliferous quartz, in the neighborhood of Sonora, of amazing richness. It is said that all great discoveries are made by accident; so in this case, Mr. BOURS had dismounted from his mule to light a cigar, and kicked from the earth a piece of quartz to ignite his match with, when, to his surprise, he found it studded with gold. From further explorations, he found that he had stumbled upon the richest mine in California. The vein is about ten inches in thickness, and Mr. Bours is convinced that the quartz contains nearly 50 per cent of the precious metal. We saw twenty pounds of quartz from the vein, and are quite confident that this estimate is rather below than above the average. Mr. Bours is on his way to San Francisco to organise a company to work the vein on an extensive scale. [Times. 

Little Joe, who murdered a Chilian, in the El Dorado last week, was captured on last Sunday, at Mokelumne Hill, and lodged in jail, in our city last evening. - [Jour. 

 

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Sacramento Daily Union

Monday Morning, November 3, 1851

 

From the San Joaquin.

GREGORY has handed us the Republican of Saturday, from which we extract as follows:

SHIPMENT OF GOLD DUST - The amount of gold dust shipped per Tennessee for the Atlantic States, by Newell & Co., was $26,900, besides the sum of $15,000 in drafts.

FOOT RACE - An interesting foot race came off on Belt’s ranch near the Mercedes, a few days ago between Mr. William HOWARD and one of the fastest Indian runners in the country. The victory was gallantly won by Mr. Howard.  Distance one mile.

SCOUNDRELISM - On the 30^th ult., at Moquelumne Hill, some scoundrel placed a rag containing powder under the platform of the office of Newell & Co., where it was found by accident. The rag was tied up, and above the string had been on fire, but was not burned below the string, appearances indicated that it had been there for several days, as the powder was damp and the cloth slightly mouldy. Without question, this was the work of designing hands to facilitate some evil design, as it is beyond the probability of accident that powder should find its way into such quarters in that manner without assistance.

From the Interior.

To Gregory’s Express we are indebted for a copy of the El Dorado News, from which we extract the following:

CENTERVILLE DIGGINGS - These diggings are located about two miles from this place, on the road leading to Placerville. The miners there are now engaged in throwing up dirt for winter washing, and in many places the ground is very rich. Some of them are now making eight or ten dollars per day by picking out the gold from the dry dirt. Quite a village has sprung up here in the last few weeks, and every day is adding numbers to the population.

CONVICT CAUGHT - Mr. J.F. McFARLAND, Marshal of the city of Sonora, arrived in this place on Tuesday evening last with the convict Cyrus WILLIAMSON, who escaped from jail about six weeks ago. A reward of $250 was offered by the Sheriff for his apprehension, which was promptly paid to Mr. McF., and he left for Sonora.

COON HOLLOW - Another company of one hundred men has been formed in Coloma for the purpose of running a tunnel into the hill at Coon Hollow. This makes the third company that has been organized in this place within the last few weeks, for mining in that section.

 

The following are the sufferers as far as ascertained, by the fire which occurred at Greenwood Valley, Oct. 29^th:

Ridgeway & Co., $10,000; Jaques & Campbell, $1,500; Sharp & Mitchell, $10,000; Hornblower, $8,000; Janett, $800; Col. Torrence, $900; and many others lost all their clothing.

HIGHWAY ROBBERY - A Mr. Patrick KELLY, while on his way home last night, about half-past twelve o’clock, was followed by three persons who finally knocked him down with a bludgeon, kicked and beat him most brutally and left him senseless. When he recovered he found he had been robbed of $750, together with his watch and chain. [Alta]

The CHAPMAN family were to have taken a benefit at the American theater, San Francisco, on Saturday evening last.

Mr. W.C. ANNAN, of the house of Annan, Lord & Co., San Francisco, has left California for a temporary sojourn in the Eastern States.

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The Daily Union

Sacramento, Tuesday Morning, September 7, 1852 

THE OVERLAND EMIGRATION

We publish below a complete list of the arrivals by the various routes during the last week. The anxiety of friends who are expecting relatives and friends by the way of the plains increases with the advancing season, and in order to relieve their minds, we shall give accurate and complete lists of all arrivals until the close of the season. 

The following persons have arrived at Placerville. This list is from the News:

W.G. Romans, A. Newsome, H. Pykes, S. Jackson, J. Hey, C. Howk, D. Eby, C.W. Newman, A.C. Plummer, G.W. Gregory, C.H. Schwenker, L. Pimper, J. Wolford, John Wolford, D. Peeple, J. Vanorinan, A. Manche, L.H. Weatherby, F.D.C. Shaw, J.J. Jennings, C. Crittenden, J.H. Sheleton, W.J. Hill, E.F. Springer, W.H. Springer, J.P. Springer, wife and child, Mrs. S.O. Springer and child, E. Horine, J. Jones, D. Nicely, C. Stremming, R.K. Lansden, J.C. Hall, J.M. Coley, J.W. Jones, A.G. Burleson, A. Hull, J. Cain, T.M. Ticks, H.B. Wilson, W.A. Haston, L.D. Allen, W. Hammond, R. Lunceford, J.A. Shepperd, J.F. Long, L. Ang, T. Land, L. Gates, W. Bond, Jr., W. Bond, J. Hammond, H. Whitson, J.G. Dougherty, P. Parcels, M. Echtery, P. Sniter, P.R. Wellot, J. Sharper, C.A.C. Bidwell, P. Fitzpatrick, H.B. Doolittle, W. Westfield, J. Holt, J.A. Powell, J.W. Johnson, C. Metcalf, J.P. Bower, W.H. Hand, W. Henderson, L.D. Jones, H. Harrington, D.H. Williamson, M. Adams and lady, N. Lane and lady, S.M. Hoover, A.J. Pimberman, H. Gilbert, Jr., J. Kannatte, H. Aicks, B. Treloar, S. Fulser, G.W. Morris, W. Griffeth, E. Mack. Edwards and brother, W.L. McCranor, W.J. Gilson, R. Powel, L. Wahl, W. Waterford, G.A. Elmer, J. Anderson, W. Marwood, J. Heely, W. Eccleston, J.B. Munson, W.W. Book, J. Lampton, W. Retter, G. Everlort, F.A. Brainard, T. Clancy, G.S. Kendrick, D. Boyle, S.W. Bensline, H.H. Hall, E. Gilbert, D.L. German, J.J. Randelin, H.A. Sweet, J. Gardener, R.G.C. Houston, C.M. Mathins, H.C. Hall, I Cox and lady, J.S.C. Cosley, S. Barton, L. Ballard, O. Conde, J.A. Elston, J.A. Pearch, W. Inshee, R. Palding, F. McElroy, M.F. Furguson, O. Brown, S. Burket, W.W. Womeldorf, R. Ewingo, J. Criswell, R. Turner, C. Smidt, R.J. Womeldorff, J.M. Wiant, A. Prince, W.S. Alexander, W. Garrison, A. Garrrison, W.A. Smith, J. Lea, W.F. Miller, M.C. Miller, A. Fisher, P. Weir, H.O. Nearing, E.M. Eddy, O.T. Snider, A. Flanegan, S. Hamilton, G.P. Randall, G. Lucas, J.T. Walker, T. Edmonds, W. Parks, H. Sawyer, J.P. Bower, S.W. Reed, A.J. Pimberman, R. Parker, D.P. Edwards and brother, B. Moore, J. Wilkinson, M. Kelly, J.H. Hallett C.E. Phillips, A.C.S. Jamwer, W. Smith, J.P. Anderson, Sr., J.P Anderson, Jr., H. Bengson, W.G. Booth, J.F. Perkins, G. Hugill, J.A. Maglin, C.W. Durgin, H. Wickwise, R. Smith, H.M. Hamilson, F.H. Hilburn, D.J. Halns, T. Cary, G.A. Hallkins, J.W. Smith, C. Cawetes, P. Wood, D.C. Phillips, M. Sprague, J. Marton, A. Dunnigan, C. Dale, D.W. Madden, H. Chase, E. Fairbrother, A.C. Collins, J.M. Stuart, S.C. Donaldson, J.P Witesell, R. Uhlrich, S.P. Russell, J.H. Mapfield, F.P. Hall, S. Drew, Dr. W.M. O. Johnson, M. Coleman, A. Swan, L. Bishop, A. Ward, C. Mitcheltree, D.A. Endicott, E.S. Reed, B.S. Craft, F.M. Hilburn, J.M. Short, J.W. Drake, A.W. Morton, A.C. Plummer, C.E. Linch, J. Dacke, J. Rice, P.J. Lay, J. Thompson, E. Angle, C.P. Kley, J. Blackburn, R.S. Adams, J.N. Hodge, J. Blackinton, J. Cunningham, S. Warnley, S. Laird, L. Milkland, J. Morgan, B.F. Rogers, S. Cooper, W.E. Rottenhouse, D. Bamay and lady, J.B. Wilson, W.W. McCoy, J. Wilcox, B.A. Johnston, J.P. Bower, L.E. Brooche, G.A. Cress, R. King, H.G. Haskell, H.J. Ormsby, N.L. Robinson, N.J. Hammond, J. Vanborn, J. Wallace, B Griggsby, L. Leport, V.S. Holiderbuck, E.W. Kenton, J.B .Nash, C. Nash, J. Nash, W.W. Boak, S.E. Wriston, S. Brookford, J. Ross, R.G. McKee, M. Phelps, L. Swartout, D.C. Mettison, E.S. Veach, R .Rogers, W. Green, F. Charles, A. Stephenson, A. Bell, J. Stewaot, S. Hodley, B.H. Winship, F.B. Winship, F.M. Hilberson, J. Carpenter, M.G. Stearns, L. McMackin, C. Warner, D. Dills, J.E. Drake, D.H. Williams, E. Dale, J.E. Jhaw, E.C. McIntire, A.L. Weston, J.W. Vorhees, S. Barton, W.S. Bennett ,O. Wilson, J.J. McCall, H.M. Hamilton, A. Pierce, W. Miller, H. Cranmer, Z. Pierce, T.J. Bennett, E.P. Stuart, J. Strang, W. King, E. Boree, A. Garnett, E. Quigly, C. Holley, J. Correns, J.S. Jennings, J.M. Sparks, J.D Wilcox, T. Gardiner, J.L. Steele. P. D_cson, J.H. Parmer, J.E.S. Veach, J.W. Brush, J. Molter, Dr. E. Buckwell, M. Burke, G.M. Cotton, K.E. Norton, J.B. Hixson, C. Howk, W.H. Waterbury, C.P. Baker, B. Brown, J.N. Lemen, H.H. Ferguson, B. Morton, J. Foxell, A.J. Balmey, W. Blakeley, R.J. Wicks, L.T. Earthan, J.H. Dills, A.E. Wells, V.L. Acorn, J.H. Fletcher, E. Sergeant, J.J. McCall, J. Tryon, J. Holmes, R.B. Hall, Rev. A. Acord, G. Wilson, J.A. Gwinn, J.P. Anderson, J.H. Hardy, F.B. badilla, F. Dittema, W.C. Greenleaf, J.L. Cox, W. Grace ,B.F. Connelly, W. Allendaffer, W. Burnes, J.L. Sackett, L. Teitts, J.J. Hopkins, S.S. Becker, T.M. Slaughter, F.M. Schell, T.B. Van Winkle and brother, W.V. Barch, A.T. Gillespie, J.J. McCall, W.M. Hanloy, J.R. Moulton, W.H. Benedict, R.H. McIlroy, G.R. Berford, S. Worduson, P. Flaerty, J. Smith, J.W. Vorhees, H. Sweet, C.W. Saunders, W.S. Alexander, D.C. Snider, Col. Johnson, J. Kearney, J. Porter, G. Worick, S. Burket.

The following persons have arrived at Yreka, Siskkiyou county, and at Shasta, by Noble’s Route:

YREKA

Illinios - Capt. Isaac Mead, Alford Mead, G.H. Blankenship, Frank Gibbs, J.J. Westbrook and four Germans.

Wisconsin - F.R. Striker, J. Bonndy, Charles Stiles, Ira Ferris, Chas Rice, Francis Kugeht, Oscar Judd, C. Barrett, T. Box, Anson Turner, J.G. Moss, Chas. B. Moss, L.M. Brown, Ford Myers.

Michigan - Albert Matthewson, G. Chapman

Missouri - P.H. Poindexter, E.C. Sh_arer,

J.Q. Adams, Iowa - Jno. Henry Parker, Ohio

SHASTA

Wisconsin - Nathan Parish and wife, Daniel Parish and wife, Caleb Parish and wife ,H.F. Wood, D. Dunn, P.K. Kearny, Mr. Madison, Edmund Purdy, Mr. Parley, Mr. _oble, John Kelly, George McComber and wife and child, Mrs. Dr. Morse, Jason Hitchcock, Parley Foster, H. Mattison.

Indiana - C.E. Edwards, Wm. Edwards, H. Stockton, John Judson, A. Joy and wife and 3 children, H. Crable, Wm. Crable, Mr. Crawford, D. Tripp, Mr. Merritt, Mr. McIntyre, wife and child, Mr. Tinkham and wife.

Illinois - I.P. Miller, J.K Hoyt, W. Strong, James Eden.

Ohio - Daniel Snyder, J. Warren, J.D. Randall, Wm. T. Beatty, Edward Chaney, J. Clark, M. Simpkins, Wm. A. Dudley, J. I Brown, T. McGuire, J. McGinnes, J. Love, J. Patterson., G. Miles, J. Sandlin, J. McNulty, J. Paskell, J. Parvin, Geo. Rice.

New York - J. Hibbard, Joseph Hibbard, P. Combs, S. Combs.

Missouri - A. Price and wife, D. Branch, M. Branch. 

DEATH FROM DRINKING COLD WATER - H.C. Carter of Boston, (Mass.,) died suddenly on Sunday morning, near Auburn, while on his way to the American River. The cause of his death is supposed to be from the effects of drinking cold water to excess, while overheated. The deceased had recently arrived in this State on the ship North America. 

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Sacramento Daily Union

Thursday January 6, 1859

 

NEVADA MATTERS - We cull the following items of intelligence from the Democrat, of Jan 5^th:

  A man named SHAW, while coming into town last Saturday evening, from American Hill, fell into the cut of the Plymouth Rock Company, which is some sixty feet deep, but was rescued without his being much injured.

  Thomas RYAN was dangerously injured, last Saturday, at Cement Hill, by the explosion of a blast. He was engaged with another man in drilling out an old blast, when it went off, throwing the rocks in every direction, a number of which struck the unfortunate man. His face was fearfully disfigured, and his left arm broken near the shoulder. It is not yet known whether or not his eyes are injured. The other man was injured in the face, but not seriously.

  A boy named William COLLINS was robbed by three men, at Grass Valley, on Tuesday evening of last week. Two of the robbers held pistols to the boy’s head, while the other ransacked his pockets, obtaining seventy-five cents. On the same evening, and by three men, a man was robbed near “Mudtown,” of two half dimes and a dime. He raised an alarm, when the robbers placed a knife close enough to leave a scratch near one of his eyes.

 

  THE GLIMPSE CASE - The case was resumed in the United Stated District Court at San Francisco, June 3d. The evidence offered was similar to that already published in our columns, showing that Captain DAYTON was rather a rough officer in his deportment towards his female passengers. It would seem by the following extract that the Captain’s wife did not behave in a very lady-like manner:

 The Governor of Nukahiva was aboard the ship, accompanied by several native seamen, when Dayton’s wife abstracted a bottle of port wine from the ladies’ hamper, in their cabin, while they were on shore, which was not replaced, but the bottle was filled up with water; Dayton was present at this time.

 

  ACCIDENT IN SANTA CLARA - On Wednesday, December 29^th, Edward BUTLER, while driving the Almaden road, near San Jose, was thrown to the ground by the horses running away, and was so severely injured that he died in a few days afterwards.

 

  HUMBOLDT COUNTY - The Northern Californian, of Dec. 22d, chronicles the following intelligence:

 Constable HOGOBOON, Saturday evening, arrested a man calling himself T. KELLY, upon a charge of stealing a Navy revolver from the shop of C. SHOMAKER, but a short time previous. The Court found him guilty as charged, and sentenced him to pay a fine of $50.

  We are informed that, Tuesday night, December 16^th, a house in the vicinity of Eagle Prairie, belonging to John REED, was burned.

  On Thursday or Friday last, two of the volunteers, HYSLOP and OLVANY, were looking for horses, about four miles from the camp, near Mad river, when they saw six Indians and about the same number of squaws. As they were without their rifles, and mounted, they adopted Light Dragoon tactics and charged upon the Indians, wounding some - one mortally - and took two squaws prisoners.

  The same day, three men from camp at Angel’s came upon a party of ten Indians and had a bout with them - killed one Indian and wounded several; two so badly that they may almost be called “good Indians.”

 

  MARYSVILLE - The California Stage Company, we learn from the Express, has suspended communication between this city and Marysville for the Winter. A new boat, adapted to Winter navigation, is to be placed upon the river route.

 

  GENERAL AGENT OF THE TEHUANTEPEC LINE. John C. CARPENTER, an old Californian, has been appointed by the Louisiana Tehuantepec Company, General Agent of the line for the Pacific coast, to reside at San Francisco.

 

  WOMAN DEALING IN KNUCKLES - Mary BURNETT, who had armed herself with brass knuckles, in San Francisco, and badly cut a woman named Ellen SPICER, in the head, was recently held to bail in the sum of $100.

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Daily Bee, Sacramento

Monday Evening, February 13, 1860 

RECOVERING - The Shasta Courier says that the numerous friends of Hon. R.T. SPRAGUE will be pleased to learn that he is now in a condition that justifies his physicians in the hope of a speedy recovery. 

Those who voted against BAKER and will promise to stand by the Charleston nominee will be permitted to vote at the Democratic primary election in Shasta county.   

The Supervisors of Shasta county have fixed the rates of taxation for 1860, at $2 upon each $100 of value. 

SALT LAKE NEWS - The Salt Lake mail arrived at Genoa Saturday night, with dates from Great Salt Lake to February 1^st.

A dispatch to the Union says:

John KAY was elected as Territorial Marshal, and S.M. BLAIR, Attorney General; Jesse M. SOUTH, Attorney for the First Judicial District, and W.H. BRONFIELD, for the Second Judicial District; J.S. CHILDS, Probate Judge of Carson county, and W.C. CAMPBELL, Notary Public.

On the 19^th ult, a bloody tragedy took place at Salt Lake at the house of a butcher, in which Bill HICKMAN was confined from the effects of wounds received in a street affray on Christmas. An assault was made upon him by Joe RHODES, an army follower. In the scuffle RHODES was stabbed eight times near the heart, and died immediately. Another man was shot in the road by ROCKWELL, whom he had stopped and threatened.

One John KING was buried under a snow slide in Centerville Canon.

Three shocks of an earthquake were felt in Fillmore county; also in Toole county. The vibration in Fillmore county was from south-east to north west. 

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Daily Bee, Sacramento

Monday Evening January 14, 1861 

ARRIVALS AT THE ST. GEORGE, January 13

W.B. May, San Francisco

Mrs. J. Thatcher, do

V.E. Howard, do

J.C. Stebbins, do

J. Clough, do

Ed. F. Hall, Jr., do

J.R. Travers, do

W. Walden, Stanislaus

Wm. S. Brown, Auburn

A. Taliaferro, San Rapheal

W.H. Harnden, S.N. Co

Mrs. Casey, Marysville

Wm. C. Wallace, Napa

L.D. Latimer, Santa Rosa

J.B. Wallard, Virginia City

B.F. Leet, Lincoln

G.T. Snowden, Sacramento

J. Van Parks & wf, Oroville

D.C. Norcross, San Jose

W.H. Saawteller, do

W.H. Barron, Ione City 

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Sacramento Daily Union

Friday, July 11, 1862 

FALL OF SUSPENSION BRIDGE AT NEVADA - TWO MEN KILLED AND ONE SERIOUSLY WOUNDED - TWELVE OXEN KILLED

NEVADA, July 10^th,

About seven o’clock this morning the suspension bridge lately erected in this city across Deer creek fell with a tremendous crash, killing one man instantly, injuring another so badly that he lived but a few minutes, and a third man very seriously but not dangerously injured. Two ox teams, (four yoke each,) loaded heavily with hay, were on the bridge at the time. The teams were coming from the south side. At the moment the accident occurred, the forward team was near the center of the bridge, while the wagon of the hindmost team was just leaving the platform. The name of the individual instantly killed is Samuel McCALL, who was driving the head team. ADAMS had his skull smashed, from which his brains protruded; several of his ribs were also broken. He was taken into the house of STOUT, but died in a few minutes. D.J. PERKEY, an old citizen, was crossing the bridge just ahead of the first team, and on hearing the crash turned around to learn the cause, at which time the bridge gave way in the center, pitching downward, causing him severe, though not dangerous injuries. Twelve oxen were killed, or so badly smashed up that they had to be killed. The fall is supposed to have been caused by a defect in the cast iron yoke into which the rods were fastened - the break occurring about half way between where the anchor was fastened and the top of the tower at the south end and west side of the bridge. The teamsters killed are from Bear river. The bridge was erected by A.S. HALLADIE & Co., of San Francisco, and was completed a few weeks since at a cost to the contractors of over $12,000. The height of the bridge above the bottom of the creek is a little over fifty feet. 

ANDY JOHNSON - A correspondent, who visited Andy Johnson, says he takes his meals in the public dining room of his hotel at Nashville, with not even a waiter to serve him specially. Though a Brigadier General, he wears no mark of his military honors, and seems to avoid display. His bedroom is a plain affair, half filled by a bed, and he often sits there till midnight, reading and inditing dispatches by the light of tallow candles. As a consequence, he looks pale and careworn. He declares his belief that it the military questions were settled, the people of Tennessee would vote themselves back into the Union by a majority of fifty thousand. 

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Sacramento Daily Union

Monday July 28, 1862 

HEARD FROM - Recent intelligence from New York states that Charles ABBOTT, pilot of the ship Prima Donna, about whose safety there were doubts in San Francisco, was alive and well and on board of the Prima Donna. 

FOR SALT LAKE - Rev. S.B. BELL was at Carson City lately, en route for Salt Lake. 

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Sacramento Daily Union

Thursday August 7, 1862 

AUGUSTA GOD AND SILVER MINING COMPANY - Notice is hereby given that, by order of the Board of Directors, a sufficient number of shares standing in the names of the following persons on the books of the company, will be sold at auction on MONDAY, the EIGHTH of SEPTEMBER next, at ten o’clock, A.M., at the office of the Secretary, on J street near Fourth, to satisfy assessments heretofore levied and expenses of advertising and sale, unless charges are sooner paid:

G. Guyther, 42 shares - January assessment, $10, March, $12.60, June $42.00

Mrs. M.D’Artois, 8 shares -March, $2.60; June, $8.00

T.S. Benoist, 10 shares, do, $10.00

Mrs. F. Formann, 5 shares, do, $5.00

J.B. Dayton, 1 share, do, $1.00

J.S. Gillan, 3 shares, do, $8.00

J. Hull, 1 share, do, $2.00

H.C. Kibbe, 2 shares, do, $2.00

W.C. Kibbe, 2 shares, do, $2.00

W.W. Price, 36 shares, do, $36.00

R.H. Tibbits, 1 share, do, $1.00

A.E. Town, 1 share, do, $1.00

W.S. SUMMERS, President

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Sacramento Daily Union

Thursday, November 27, 1862

 

SAN FRANCISCO NEWS - A dispatch to the Bee yesterday has the following intelligence:

A letter to the Alta, dated San Bernardino, November 18^th, says Dr. O.M.

WOZENCRAFT went to the house of H.M. WILLIS, formerly of San Francisco, paid a bill and demanded a receipt. WILLIS refused to give it, abused and insulted him, following him from the house. The doctor told him it was hard to take abuse from a good-for-nothing boy. WILLIS drew a pistol and fired two shots, both taking effect, one in the shoulder, the other in the side.  WILLIS received one shot from the doctor in the hip. The doctor received another shot in the arm from WILLIS’ brother. Both were held to bail to appear at the next Court of Sessions.

The steamer St. Louis arrived this morning from Panama. The following is her list of passengers:

Thomas RUSSELL, Mrs. B. COLE and child, Mrs. BARR, Mrs. A.H. HARPER and

three children, James C. REND, Mr. and Mrs. MONROE, three children and

servant; Rev. A. ADENBURG, Mr. CLARE, Rev. Mr. CUNNINGHAM, Marion M. CASTEN,

M. JACOBS, F. CHIN, ___ HAMILTON and wife, A.T. HONES and wife, Mr. VARNEY

and child, M.J. BAKER, J.G. JAMES and wife, Miss J. LASELLA and child, Miss

Mary MEDBURY, William BRADLEY, C. SIMPSON and child, Mrs. PACHARD and

daughter, Miss LARAGE, Mrs. A. SNEDIKER, Miss Nolu POMEROY, Mrs. H.A. PENNY

and child, Mr. and Mrs. R.O. DENON, Mrs. Mary McKIM, Julia HOLMES, Miss D.

BOOBER, Mr. and Mrs. PULLMER, E.M. TAYLOR, Helen DRICHEL and child, Oscar

BURTON, Mrs. Dr. JOHNSON, Mrs. C. HARLIN and child, Leon SAUNDERS, Mrs. J.C.

DENON, James Conden BENNUMAN, Miss C. DULLEAN, Salsbury L. MUMNEN and wife,

Miss E. DOLAN, Miss Caroline THOMPSON, Miss Clara AUSTIN, Mrs. STEEL, Mr.

MEDDOW, M.C. DAVIS, Mrs. BEEBE and two children, Mr. GIDEON, Mr. KING, Mr.

CINEL, Mr. DEENOR, Ann CONNLIN, Mrs. E. GRADY and child, J.T. FARMER, S.T.

BLACK, James REPEY, wife and child; Miss Jane LUDDER, Mrs. LUDDER, J.H.

UNDERWOOD, Sarah DECKINS, Mrs. C. JOHNSON and child, Mrs. R. DAVIES and two

children, Mrs. T.D. CALLON and child, J.T. HASKINS, Miss MASS, J. SCHERBERG,

Franklin OALSON, Sam ELLIS, J.N. GRAY, Samuel THOMAS, Henry HARDING, John

PARKER, James FARREL, T.L. CONMAN, M. HITCHINGS, F. WORHMAN, H.H. NELSON,

A.C. MILLER, Mr. SMITH and wife, ___ LETCHEL, Mrs. RICHARDS and daughter,

L.W. KERLEY, Sarah WELLINGTON, Mrs. A.C. GRAY, Mrs. N.GRAY, Miss M. DOLEN,

A. MANUS, wife and three children; C.M. ROLLINS and child, Mrs. M. HATCH and

two children, N.L. RECHETEL, wife and two children; M. MURPHY, L.D. PALMER,

V. JOSEPH, M. PEDRO, Miss E. HENLEY, Wm. GORMAN, Miss A. ACLUM, W.R.

WILLIAMS, H. McCULTER, James ENNIS, M. RODGERS, Mr. ROLLAND, G.F. AUSTIN,

James CHENERY, Mr. SELFRIDGE, son and daughter; L. SCHAERTEN, Mrs. W. WOODY

and child, Dr. E.G. CHURCH and wife, W.R. ROWE, Mrs. M. CONNELL and child,

Captain A.F. FLETCHER, Captain J.N. KING, D.C. McCARTHY, Mrs. ELAIS, J.

JACKLIN, J.H. PRESTON, F.M. HERNED, Mrs. SENTAKER, Mrs. Julia HODGE, Mrs.

J.K. LOAHNED and child, John MATHER, Philip MUNYRES, G.W.STERLEY, Mrs. A.S.

ROSE and child, Mrs. McCALL and family, Susan NICHOLS, Miss Rebecca MATHEWS,

Miss H. B. GAMMOND.

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Sacramento Daily Union

Friday, November 28, 1862

 

BY TELEGRAPH TO THE UNION

Arrival of the Moses Taylor - List of Passengers - Insanity - Presentation - Fire - Incorporation

SAN FRANCISCO, November 27^th

The steamship Moses Taylor arrived to-day from Realejo, with passengers via Nicaragua.

Leopold JUAREZ was arrested to-day for insanity.  An elegant pair of holster pistols, saddle and accouterments were presented last night to J. Sewall REED, Captain of the California Cavalry Company.

The coppersmith establishment of REYNOLDS & Co., Front street, was fired last night by an incendiary. The upper rooms were occupied by women who escaped.

The South Yuba Mining Company have incorporated.

The following is the list of passengers per steamship Moses Taylor:

Isaac K. ROBERTS, M.O. ROBERTS, Jr., Samuel NORRIS, J. MATT, F. PIERCE, John BUT, Peter VERDEGRIN, Mrs. J.F. PARKE, E. RANSALOFF and wife, G.W. WHITE and wife, A. SHIRECK, A.S. SHIRECK, Miss S. HARDEN, Miss M. MANNER, Mrs. LARUE, Dr. W. CALVERT, Rev. H. GOODWIN, Miss Kate RAMSDELL, Mrs. DIXON, Miss Jennie DIXON, Miss C.B. FRENCH, W.R. DUFF, S.T. GELL, Frank S. LAWLER, Mrs. H. AITKEN, H. CRAWFORD and wife, M.T. DENMAN, A. CURRY, D.L. NICHOLS, Catharine, Chas., and Rosa MARTUS, D. GRIFFITH, M.G. KING, J. RICH, K. BRIER, J. MORRISON, J.B. CLARK, J.W. WOODRUFF, H.E. WOODRUFF, L. RAMSDELL, O. ALLEN, Mrs. McWADE, Miss B. MILES, Miss M. DAILY, Mad. ROCHET and child, Miss JAMIERE, Miss E. NEWTON, Mary WOODHAM, Mrs. F. MILLS, Miss M. FLOWERS, Mrs. Ben. COTTON and child, Miss S. ROWE, Mrs. J.B. CLARK, Miss H. CLARK, Mrs. S. WHITLOCK and two children, A.A. WHITLOCK, Miss A. PHIPPS, J.A. STRICKHAM, M. JAMIERE, T.A. BLAKELEY, W.P. MORRIS, D.S. HAINES, A.D. PELLS, J.P. GREEN, W.W. WOODHAM, E.B. WILDER, M. PARRISH, S. BURDICK, M. VOORHIES and boy, C.D. WARREN, W.P. WARREN, P. NEIL, A. O’DOUGHERTY, E. O’DOUGHERTY, A.B. HILL, Miss IRISH, Mrs. WARREN and boy, Mrs. RICKANCE and boy, Miss McDONALD, Miss T. ROBERTS, Mrs. A. HAINES, Miss BAILEY, Mrs. PAUR, Miss P. STEGER, Mrs. H. DECHAUX, Mrs. BRADWAY, Miss MEADER, Mrs. HOLMES and two children, Mrs. R. MARTUS and child, Miss E. SYMES, Miss E.J. SYMES, Mrs. G.  JOHNSON, Miss A. MARTUS, A. LEVEY, W.H. COFFEE, J.A. STAFFORD, wife and child; Miss L. AMES, Mrs. WILLIAMS, Mrs. E. CRAZE and child, Mrs. G. CURRY, Mrs. SHEVILLE, O.V. REYNOLDS, J.S. HALL, E. FOWLER, S.H. CARLISLE, D.J. POTTER, Miss DEMPSEY, Miss COX, Mrs. HAWLINS, Mrs. M. TAYLOR, Mrs. NASH and two children, H.A. BLETHEN, J.P. RODGERS, A.G. BLETHEN, W.M. BULLARD, P. WARREN, R.W. VOSBURGH, D. PROTHERO, A. LEVEY, and 420 in steerage, 175 of whom are women.

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Sacramento Daily Union

Monday, December 15, 1862

 

SALT IN NEVADA TERRITORY - A train of eighteen animals came into Virginia City, lately from the salt marshes beyond Walker lake, bringing five thousand pounds of as pure rock salt as that offered for sale in the San Francisco market. The trail is reported a very hard one, both on men and animals.

SUICIDE - Samuel BROWN, residing in Marin county, about six miles from Petaluma, in a fit of insanity, committed suicide, December 4^th, by hanging himself in a barn on his premises. The deceased was a man of considerable means, and somewhat advanced in life, being 66 years old at the time of his death.

ACCIDENTS IN AMADOR - On Tuesday night, December 9^th, George FREEMAN, Postmaster at Jackson, fell down a bank in that place and broke one of his legs. A teamster named BOAM was lately severely injured by the overturning of his wagon on the Volcano road, near Jackson.

TANNING - Samuel F. CHAPMAN has quite an extensive tannery in active operation about one mile from Chinese Camp, Tuolumne county. He produces a very superior article of leather by tanning hides with gum catechu, a substance obtained from a variety of the acacia.

GRAPE VINES - Sonoma county, so far as has been ascertained, has 567,100 bearing grape vines of the Mission variety, and 40,000 foreign. Solano county has 97,000 domestic and 6,000 foreign.

THEFT IN SAN JOSE - The grocery store of William BIVEN, formerly of the Stockton Argus, was entered in San Jose lately, and robbed of $100 in cash.

 

Sacramento Daily Union

Monday, December 15, 1862

 

PASSENGERS FROM THE EAST - Our correspondent at New York sends us the following list of passengers who sailed from that city for San Francisco, November 21^st, in the Champion. They will arrive by the Orizabva in San Francisco to-morrow or next day:

Susan E. ROOP

Juliet VARINA

Mr. BUTLER

John P. WINCHESTER

Alex. KLEBS

H. NACHTIGAL

C.M. HINMAN

J. GARGESSUS and wife

John M. MUGRIDGE and wife

A.BROWN and wife

M. HESEKIEL

C.P. WEBSTER, wife and ch’d

Helen C. WEBSTER

Miss H.H. HUMPHREY

D.F. WEBSTER

Mrs. C.A. BEARD

Horace P. OLDS

Sarah D. PRINGLE

Cornelia PRINGLE

A.S. GOVE

J. CRUMP

Elizabeth M. FLINT

Miss D.C. POLLARD

Miss M.A. POLLARD

M.L. MARSH

Emanuel DEW

Mrs. A. SEVERANCE

Mrs. J.S. BARKER and 3 ch’n

J.F. CARTER

R.G. VICKERS

Mrs. WHEELER and 2 childr’n

Mrs. W. BUTCHER and 4 chd’n

Dr. J.N. HALL

G.H. REED

Mrs. REILLY

F. HAYFORD, wife and fam’y

Mrs. A. TODD and 3 childr’n

Choe A. STEWARD

Ellen PATTISON

Bertha HONIG

Mrs. M.E. BERGNER and 4 ch

C.A. BEARD

Frank SMITH, wife and fam.

Mrs. E.J. NICKERSON and ch

John GRIGEBY and son

Mrs. W.H. KELLY and 1 child

C. SUTTERLEY

J. JOHNSON , wife and family

J.H. McCABE and sister

Mrs. E.A. WARD

Mrs. M.N. WARD

Ann WARD and 2 children

Mary SMITH and sister

Elizabeth TURNER

M.A. BAWKER, wife and fam.

Thomas H. HIGGINS

Edward HILL

Flora M. KIMBALL

Hannah SAWYER

N.L. HIGGINS and 2 child’n

J.A. FOSTER, wife and 1 ch

L.W. ALLEN

B.D. DAGGART

Mrs. Jane PROPER

John F. MARSH

Daniel MARSH

Mrs. GILLESPIE and daughter

Miss S.M. SEVERANCE

M. LEVY

Arthur S. PETERS

W.C. MERRILL, wife and ch’d

Mrs. F. WEATON and 2 chd’n

Mrs. M. KELLOGG and 2 ch’n

Abijah CRANE

Isabella TRAYNOR

N. DELBRANCO

J. LAHMAN

Mrs. J. KIRKWOOD

Mrs. SAVAGE and child

Mrs. Caroline FIRST

 

ROBBERY IN SAN FRANCISCO - Recently a female entered the house of Ira P. RANKIN, and carried away a heavy silver castor, taken from the sideboard. The property was recovered.

WINE - Colonel HARASZTHY, of Sonoma, estimates that the amount of wine to be produced from his vines the present year will be about forty thousand gallons.

ARRESTS OF GAMBLERS - Four gentlemen of the blackleg fraternity, named, respectively, J.A. KELLER, E.W. NOYES, Joseph BENNETT and Alex. McKAY, were lately arrested in the Bowery gambling den on Commercial street, San Francisco, by a posse of officers, commanded and led on by Leos. They gave bail in $500.

MARYSVILLE APPEAL - Charles H. WESTMORELAND, late of the Shasta Courier, has

been invited to take charge of the Marysville Appeal. He has accepted the position.

ACCIDENT - James SMART, of Grass Valley, had his leg broken recently at Boston Ravine, Nevada county, by being thrown from a horse.

DESTITUTE - A woman named Mrs. CONWAY, supposed to be insane, was brought to Shasta lately from Flat Creek, where she was found in a most destitute condition. She was examined by the physician, and it was concluded not to sent her to Stockton, but care for her in the county.

SICKNESS IN MARIPOSA - The Gazette says there has been more sickness and more deaths in this section the past season than for the five years previous. In many cases the disease is sudden and malignant - something almost unknown there in previous years.

SUICIDE IN SAN FRANCISCO - On the night of December 12^th, one Theodore PARTELLO, a native of New York, committed suicide in San Francisco by cutting his throat with a razor. He left a wife and two children.

BURGLARY - On the night of December 11^th, the store of J.M. MATHEWS, in Marysville, was entered and robbed of $125 in tobacco and honey. One James BRIGGS was arrested.

ACCIDENT - William CLARK, of Honey Lake valley, met with a severe accident, being kicked by a horse, the blow taking effect on the forehead between the eyes. He is slowly recovering, but it is feared he will lose one of his eyes.

HIGHWAY ROBBERY - A negro named Henry JOHNSTON, was robbed, lately, between Chinese Camp and Knight’s Ferry, of the sum of one hundred and sixty-four dollars.

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Sacramento Daily Union

Tuesday, December 23, 1862

BY TELEGRAPH TO THE UNION

Accident & Wreck of Steamer-Fire-Incorporation-Insolvency–Sailing of the Hermann-Arrest for Mutiny at Sea

SAN FRANCISCO, December 22d

This morning a party of about two hundred, including several ladies, made an excursion on the steamer Paul Pry to witness the launch of the new steamer Yosemite. After the launch, the Paul Pry ran down to Alcatraz to see the fort. In attempting to make the landing the steamer got on the rocks and is a total wreck. There was great consternation among the passengers, fearing the boiler would burst. Two ladies were capsized into the water from a small boat, but were rescued. Boats went to the relief of the passengers, and they returned to the city in a steam tug.

Fitzgibbons’ asphaltum roofing establishment, on Mission street, was destroyed by fire this afternoon. Considerable canvas was burned. Loss, $1,500.

Jefferson Gold and Silver Mining Company for Gold Flat district, Nevada county, incorporated to-day. Capital, $500,000; 5,000 shares.  Barney B. LINCOLN files application in insolvency. Debts $22,542; no assets.

Steamer Hermann sailed this afternoon, with 543 passengers. Some of the Moses Taylor’s passengers refused to go.

It has been alternately raining and clear all day.

The street railroad cars have commenced running.  William SMITH, aged forty years, of Wales, dropped dead in the street last night.

Captain FROST, of schooner Angeline, has been missing since Thursday.  Three sailors, of ship Audubon, just arrived, have been arrested for mutiny at sea.

Arrived - Ship B.F. Hoxie, 130 days from New York, to Howes & Co.

[Second Dispatch]

Arrival from China - Rescue of Mexican Families - Arrivals from Honolulu and Sydney

SAN FRANCISCO, December 22d

The screw steamer Scotland, of the British trans-Pacific line, arrived this evening from China, via Japan, in 27 days. She brings thirteen passengers.  Two days out from Kanagawa she broke her steering gear, and had to be steered with tackles the entire passage. The former important political rumors are not confirmed.

The schooner San Florence, 18 days from San Quentin, reports that the bark Sarah Warren, from San Francisco, took off from the island of Guadalupe two Mexican families, nine persons in all, who had fled to that place twelve months ago. They were nearly starved, and dressed in goat skins.  Arrived - Bark Yankee, in 20 days from Honolulu.

The sum of $2,500 had been subscribed in Honolulu to the Sanitary Fund.  Danish bark Jorgen Lorentzen, 65 days from Sydney, brings dates to the 18^th of October.

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The Sacramento Daily Union

Wednesday, December 24, 1862

 

HOMICIDES IN NEVADA TERRITORY - A. ST. MARIE, who killed Richard GALLAGHER lately, has been held to bail in the sum of $10,000. George GUMBERT, for killing Thomas J. REEDER, has been committed for murder.

NOT MARRIED - A notice of a marriage was published in the Bulletin, December 20^th, in which one Harvey STRONG was a party. He denies the “soft impeachment.”

STABBING - In Marysville, on the night of December 22d, Thomas DRISCOLL, an apple peddler, stabbed a young man who struck him.

SACRAMENTO - A correspondent of the San Francisco Mercury, writing from Sacramento, says:

It is now a little more than a year since this place was submerged by the floods, and desolation was seen everywhere, the countenances of the inhabitants became elongated, and many prophesied that it was the death blow to Sacramento; and when the after floods came, these seers of evil exulted in what they thought to be the verification of their gloomy prognostications. But how stands the matter now! Did the misfortunes of last Winter drown the enterprise of Sacramentans, or even dishearten them? It would not seem so when we look upon the improvements that have been made the past Summer throughout the city, together with the liberality with which they have added in the advancement of all the improvements under the immediate direction of the city Government. Let those who thought Sacramento “washed out” come and view our levees, and I think they will not be likely to contemplate another “boat ride” through the streets of our city; and our legislators will hardly be able to find a pretext for removing to San Francisco this Winter, but when they assemble here they will find everything in order - good hotels and plenty to eat, dry streets with good crossings, etc.

We hope our citizens will see that this last assurance shall not prove a snare and a delusion.

SAN FRANCISCO - A dispatch to the Bee yesterday contained the following:

Between nine and ten o’clock last evening a row occurred around a faro table in the upper story of the Mayflower Saloon, a negro gambling den on Washington street, above Stockton, in which Peter DOUGLAS, darkey, cut the throat of a mulatto named SMITH, the keeper of the den, with a large jackknife, nearly severing the jugular vein.

The brig Quoddy Belle, from Russian river, while crossing the bar yesterday shipped a heavy sea on the quarter, which carried away the wheel, stove and taffrail, and filled the cabin with water. The first mate, James BURNS, was washed overboard and lost. He was a native of Nova Scotia, aged 37 years.

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The Sacramento Union

Monday, January 5, 1863

 

MURDER IN SANTA CRUZ - George WISE, who lived at GLASSELL’s ranch, Santa Cruz county, was beaten with a club by Juan LORENZANO, and so severely injured that he died on Christmas day. The occurrence took place near the house of H.C .WHEELER, on Major’s ranch, some eight or ten miles up the coast from Santa Cruz. The deceased was in the company of four or five others when the blow was given, which was witnessed by one more of them. The club weighed six or eight pounds.

INSOLVENCY - In the San Francisco County Court lately, Marx DORN filed a petition for insolvency, which states that his capital stock and profits were $26,112; real estate, merchandise and debts due, $34,644.08. Loss, $60,368.45.

 

The Sacramento Union

Monday, January 5, 1863

 

Postal News - The following persons have received their commissions as Postmasters: A.L. DOWNER, Lewiston, Nez Perces county, W.T.; William ELLIOTT, Cottage Grove, Klamath county, Cal.; Mark BUCKLEY, Neilsburg, Placer county, Cal. A new Post Office has been established at Walnut Creek, Contra Costa county, J.R. McDONALD, Postmaster. The Post Offices at Plumas, Yuba county, and Calaveras, San Joaquin county, have been discontinued.  Charles J. POLLARD, French Corral, Nevada county, Cal.; Stephen W. HOREY, Teekslot, Kitsap county, W.T.; Eben FIFIELD, Sutter Creek, Amador county, Cal.; Joseph H. SAVERY, Salt Creek Polk county, Oregon, have also been appointed.

Funeral of Keiger - The body of this man, who was killed in Sonora lately, by D.O. McCARTHY, was buried with considerable pomp on Sunday, December 28^th. Leander QUINT, R.E. GARDINER, editor of the Democrat, Geo. FINNEY, S.  NORWOOD, G. STEINMIER, and Peter MEHAN, officiated as pall bearers.

Departure of the Constitution - The following is the list of treasures by this steamer for Panama:

Don’hue, Rals & Co., $401,157; J.B. Newton & Co., $38,000; B. Davidson & May, $296,810; Edward H. PARKER, $36,000;Wells, Fargo & Co., $221,000; J.  Seligman & Co., $85,200; Lazard Freres, $62,205; J.B. Thomas, $7,040;

Parrott & Co., $55,666; Balloc Freres, $6,100; Frank Baker, $55,600; Jansen, Bond & Co, $5,000; W.T. Coleman & Co, $54,750; Luning & Co, $4,132; Abel Guy, $51,000; S.H. Prichard $3,360; DeWitt, Kittle & Co., $89,974; Other shippers, $79, 178; Sather & Church, $89, 690.

Total - $1,491,362

The following names of passengers are additional to those lately published in the Union:

Mrs. Albert A. RICHARDS and child; J.B. FRISBIE, W.B. BENT, wife, infant and nurse; L. ROSENBAUM, Mrs. J.C. McCARTY, W.H. FORBES, D.E. AVERY, D.  SAMUELS, J.H. MALLETT, A. LAMIABLE, A.W. NOBLE, George W. CHANDLER, H.

CASTEN, A. SANCEDES, B.B. LEVY, and 39 in the second cabin and steerage.

APPOINTMENTS - Governor NYE, of Nevada Territory, has appointed the following officers for Roop county, which includes Honey Lake Valley: County Judge, John S. WARD; Sheriff, W.H. NAILEIGH; County Clerk, W.N. DeHAVEN;

Treasurer, Frank DRAKE; Assessor, H.T. THOMPSON. Plumas county, of this State, lays claim to the territory of which Roop county, N.T., is formed.

PASSENGERS FROM THE EAST

Our correspondent at New York has forwarded to us the following lists of passengers, who sailed from that city December 11^th, in the steamers Ocean Queen and America. The Ocean Queen connects with the St. Louis, and the America with the Hermann on this side. The latter steamer will not arrive for some time, as she did not leave San Francisco until the 22d of December.  The St. Louis may be looked for to-day or to-morrow.

The passengers by the Ocean Queen are as follows:

PER ST LOUIS

Mrs. BUCHANAN, daughter and child

A.G. TRYON

Benj. A. WARDELL

Thomas DUNN

Mrs. GARDNER and child, Miss GARDNER

J. MERRIMAN

J. CARPENTER

Mrs. H. WEBBER

Mrs. M.G. FARQUHAR and child

W.H. GRATTAN

James LUDLOW

C.K. CLAPP

E.L. CLAPP

F. LAWSON

O. SCHMITZ and wife

P. COPACK

G.A. STROH and wife

T.C. OSBORN

John HALL

Mary E. NOYES, Sarah B. NOYES

Mrs. S. BLCKLIN, S. BUCKLIN

Mrs. Fannie M. WALTON and two children

H.W.W. MASTON, M.A. MASTON

Mrs. WHALLOIN and 5 children

Charles M. HAYES

Wm. PASSEUL

Miss L.F. JOHNSON and child

L. LONGLEY, wife and three children

Walter E. FIELDS

G.H. METCALF

C. COHEN, daughter and three children

Mary ROHNER, Clara ROHNER

E.B. BUNCE

Mrs. J.S. GRIFFIN and child

Pauline SANGER

Eliza WAGNER and brother

Mrs. C.J. BURLEY and child

Susan FOLGER

Wm. M. QUIMBY

Mary McDONOUGH, Catherine McDONOUGH

Harriet A. HARVEY

Ada E. FIELDS

A.K. PIERCE

D.S. RAUL

P. STORRS

Wm. SCHROEDER

Albert ESTERLEE

Mrs. McLAREN and 4 children

F. OSTHELM

Martha LYNCH and 1 child

J. SWALLOW

Josephine SHINE

E.G. BLESSING, John H. BLESSING

C.W.W. RICHARDS

John SANBORN

P.B. GRANT

Mrs. S. CUNNINGHAM

Wm. H. MEYER

Ellen HARGROVE

John HAMS

Mrs. M. FITCH

John WALSH

 

PER HERMANN

Mr. BONDON

H.O. HALSTED

J.H. ARNOLD

Mrs. E.F. STEEN

A.C. RAND

Miss BROOKS

J Rosa PERIZ

T. HAGER and wife

Miss E. MONTELL, Miss L. MONTELL

Mrs. Julia BROOKS and five children

R. LEWIS

Mr. MARTIN

E. MINEAU

S. MERIDITH

E. PEPLON

James HILLMAN

A.D. COOPER

S. BETTS

Fred. KEIST

J.M. QUIMBY

Sally DAX

Mrs. J.M. QUIMBY

Rosa WINGLE

W.B. FALULLER

W.E. MALM

Wm. LEWIS

E. HELPIN

O.S. HAZZARD

J. POOLE

Thos. BRADBURY, wife and niece

Miss E. BROCKTER

Miss Ann J. QUINN

Miss H. KIRLEY

J.M. LESZYNKY

R.W. COX

Martin LESZYNKY

F. NEWMAN and wife

J.C. DICKSON, N.F. DICKSON

W. LEWIS

Miss MINEAR

J. SMITH

John HOGUE

Mrs. W. LEWIS

Mrs. Leonard and two children

Miss J. BENSTEIN

Mrs. F.E. SCHRAM

Mrs. M.M. ELLIS

S.B. SCHRAM

M.A. BURKE

G. SAWYER

Miss E. DORAN

Mrs. M.E. MAXWELL, infant and child

Miss Bertha FALK

H. SCHUYLER

H. DIDEL

H. SCHMIDT

Miss A. MORSE

Mrs. E. ENOS and child

J.B. ROSENBLATT

J.R HARDENBURGH

Adolph BERYH

J.V. WEBSTER

Andrew SMITH

J. BLAKE

Wm. MEEHAN and wife

Mrs. C. MILLER

Miss L.L. KELLERE

Mrs. M. LEE and infant

Mrs. E. MADDESON and two children

Mrs. E.S. RUBLERS and child

Wm. HUNT, Aspinwall

H. TREPP, Aspinwall

 

Action For Railroad Damages - The following decision was rendered in the Twelfth District Court lately, in the case of CRAMER vs. The Market street Railroad Company; an action by the father for damages sustained by his son being instantly killed, by being run over by the cars of the above company.  The plaintiff claimed damages for the loss of the services of his son. It was decided by the Court that he will have to take out letters of administration on the estate of his child and sue as his administrator.

CALAVERAS - Assemblyman Thomas CAMPBELL’s death will cause a new election to be held in this county for the election of his successor. The Governor will issue his proclamation which will have to be published thirty days before the election takes place.

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Sacramento Daily Union

Monday, March 2, 1863

PASSENGERS FOR THE EAST - The following named passengers left New York February 2d, in the Ariel, for Aspinwall. They have arrived in San Francisco in the Golden Age, which reached San Francisco at 6 P.M., February 28th:

Mrs. BRYANT and daughter

S.W. JOHNSON,

De Lasalle

John GORDON

William M. HIXON

Georgia KEENEY

Mrs. G.H. MITCHELL and ch.,

Henry WOOD

Benjamin MITTER

S. REDLICH

Philip GOLDSMITH

R.H. MAGILL

Miss Emma FOOLEMAN

John H. KEMP

M.J. STANBERGER and daugh

Miss FRANK

Mrs. SELLING and two ch'n

Mrs. Susan FORMBHALLS

George S. VINCENT

Miss Theresa OBERMEYER

R.C. CHAPPELL and wife

C.E. HUBBARD and sister

Miss Kate DIBBLE

Miss EHRLBECH

Mrs. WALLACE

Mrs. W. EPTER and child

Mrs. C.F. COOK and three children

Miss Sophia G. KENISTER

Mrs. W. BRADFORD

Miss Emily A. HOPKINS

Miss Sarah W. PARKER

W.W. HOPKINS

C.H. PARSONS

Mrs. S.E. STANIFORD and three children

W.C. WEBSTER and sister

Ralph BENJAMIN

M. CARLEY and wife

Miss Katie BROWN

Miss Sena ROBERTSON

Mrs. Mary A. YOUNG and ch.

Mrs. Mary CRAWFORD and two children

J.R. MASON

M. COOK and wife

E.W. HAINES, wife and ch.

M. DE PAZZI

Isaac BRUIL

J. WATSON and child

J.H. SNYDER and wife

C.F. WAGONBLAST

George JEWELL and wife

William BRODERICK

Miss Hannah BUSH

H.S. TICKETT

Miss Sarah JOHNSON

Miss Maggie SOUTHWOOD

Rudolph BANGE

J. HUNTER and lady

John WILSON

S.C. GARBER

John BLAIR

G. JACOBS

W.A. FOSS

Miss Sarah A. JACINTH

Miss Eunice WEIDERHOLD

Miss Leonice B. KNIGHT

Maria L. MANLEY

Cecilia MOULTON

Mrs. Catharine CAVANIGOULT and two children

Mrs. BRADFORD and two chn.

H.M. WELLS and sister

Miss Emily BARRON

Mrs. E.A. BARRON and ch.

Miss Julia BARRON

D. JOY

Mrs. Mary S. BALLARD and child

Miss Lizzie EBBIN

M. FELIX

Isaac CLARK

S.R. BARGER

J.F. SARGENT

R.C. BURTON and wife

Mrs. Mary McCREENY and two children

Theodore KNOLL

William SOUTHWELL

H. HOWELL

John MURPHY

F. ARTHUR

F.J. BEAN

C.S. DORR

John B. WILSON

A.J. STUBBLEFIELD

John AGNEW

BY TELEGRAPH TO THE UNION

Treasure for China - Incorporations - The Late Defalcation - Judgement - Arrival from the North - Mail and Treasure by the Golden Age - Sudden Death

SAN FRANCISCO, March 1^st

Steamer Robert Low, for China, yesterday carried $501, 220.60 and cargo valued at $31,000.

The following companies were incorporated yesterday: Best Chance Gold and Silver for Echo District, Nevada Territory - capital, $90,000; Pauline, for Esmeralda - capital, $300,000; Noble Copper Company, Calaveras county - capital, $1,000,000.

MARCHUTZ, late Public Administrator, speculated in greenbacks and mining stock, which was the cause of his defalcation. It is shown that he was attempting to leave the State when arrested at Placerville.  John AGNEW obtained judgement last night for $2,295, value of the stallion Commodore, and 880, value of his services. The animal was killed by explosion of the steamer Contra Costa in 1859.

Steamer Sierra Nevada, from Victoria and Oregon, arrived this morning; she brings $49,996 in treasure, and 58 passengers.

The steamer Golden Age, which arrived last evening brought 12 packages of mail matter, and five boxes of treasure from the Golden Gate wreck.  The body of a man came ashore near the Ocean House to-day.

A Frenchman named GUED dropped dead on the Mission road.

The weather is very warm.

The statement that G.W. POOLE was expelled from his company for larceny is a mistake. He was arrested under a misapprehension, and is fully exonerated.

Late from the North.

YREKA, March 1^st.

We have Portland dates to February 23d.

On the evening of the 22d a little daughter of MAXWELL, of Lynn county, fell into a tub of boiling water, and was scalded to death.  Letters from the Boise mines say that gulches seven feet deep will average 25 cents to the pan from the top down.

The Lewiston Age says the reported capture and subsequent hanging of MAYFIELD and PLUMMER is untrue and without the slightest foundation.  Parties claiming to know what they say assert that the reported late attempt to fit out a rebel privateer at Victoria was true, and that the project fell through from want of harmony among those connected with the enterprise.

Nehemiah NORTHRUP, an old printer, died in Portland February 18^th. He was one of the original proprietors of the San Francisco Journal.  The Indians on the Snake and Boise rivers are becoming very troublesome, they steal whenever opportunity offers. [An Indian generally does. - Ed.  Union.]

One  J.W. SMYTHE of Portland has been missing since the 29^th of January.  William REILEY, tried for the murder of A.C. HUMPHREYS in Jackson county, has been convicted of murder in the second degree.  Captain John F. NOBLE has opened a recruiting office in Salem.

LETTER FROM HUMBOLDT

[Correspondence of the Union.]

HUMBOLDT CITY, February 18, 1863 Our Town and its Facilities.

Our Winter is pleasantly passing away, and but little of interest has transpired here since my last, save that we have a tri-weekly United States mail established, which gives us less cause of complaint about letters. One COWLES has taken the contract, and is now carrying the mail matter horseback, with the intention of running passenger wagons next Spring.  Not long ago a considerable excitement was raised here by the reported discovery of a rich gold lead in the first range east of this. Men rushed madly thither, some on horseback, with pack animals, mules and jacks; others on foot, packing their provisions, blankets and prospecting tools. The mania continued to rage for days, but, as is common, the disappointed gold seekers soon began to return, cursing the cause that led them away. And what is strange, men rush to these excitements who have the best claims in these mountains, and more feet than they can take care of.

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Sacramento Daily Union

Friday, March 6, 1863

 

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Insanity - Arson Case - Incorporations - The Interpolation Case – Cargo Damaged

SAN FRANCISCO, March 5^th

James MOUNTAIN, who shot and killed Edward MURPHY on Market street last August was tried for insanity to-day before a full jury, in the Twelfth District Court. The verdict is that MOUNTAIN is insane at this date. The question, was he insane at the time of the killing, was not tried; but that would be the ground of defense in the event of the restoration of his reason. He seems to be insane on religious subjects.  James SMITH, the young man who set fire to BRIGGS’ warehouse to conceal his robberies, committed to obtain money to pay gambling debts, pleaded guilty to arson in the second degree to-day.

The following mining companies incorporated: San Francisco Copper Mining Company, for Campo Seco District, Calaveras county capital stock $540,000;

Buenaventura Gold and Silver Mining Company, for Aurora, Mono county, capital stock $140,000; East Antelope, for Esmeralda, capital stock $300,000.

J.R. CORVELL, charged with interpolating the engrossed Swamp and Tide Land Bill, was dismissed in the Police Court to-day, on the ground that it was not a public document.

Another body, supposed to be of the Beeswing crew, has come ashore in San Mateo county.

About one-third of the cargo of the British ship Sardinian, from Hongkong, is damaged by sea-water.

A CALIFORNIA ABROAD - Mrs. E.N. LEEDERNIER, who resided some time in California has been giving some successful readings in Rome during the past Winter.

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Sacramento Daily Union

Tuesday, March 10, 1863

BY TELEGRAPH TO THE UNION

Incorporation - Insolvency - Tax Title Sustained - Donnery Acquitted - Rates

of Passage - California Traitors for Texas - Arrival

SAN FRANCISCO, March 9^th

The following mining companies incorporated to-day: Summit Pass Gold and

Silver, for Columbia, Tuolumne county - capital, $315,000; Creosus Gold and Silver, Washoe valley, Nevada Territory - capital, $200,000; California Copper Smelting Works, Contra Costa county - capital, $1,000,000.  Robert J. ORDWAY filed a petition in insolvency - debts, $1,100; no assets.

In the case of D.S. ROBERTS against the proprietors of the Asylum on Pine street, the Fourth District Court gives a verdict for plaintiff, sustaining a tax title.

F. ACKER, the engineer who was hurt on board the steamer Yosemite, has died of his injuries.

The examination of Edward DONNERY, charged with setting fire to a house occupied by Mrs. Catharine GUNTER, involving the loss of herself, resulted in the acquittal of the accused to-day.

Rates of passage by steamer Moses TAYLOR are, first cabin $125, second cabin $100.

A letter from Los Angeles gives bad accounts of the State Range mines - that they are merely outcroppings, and soon exhausted.

The Mazatlan paper of February 26^th says: “Last Friday a party of eight

persons, consisting of Judge D.S. TERRY, T.T. BOULDING, Duncan BEAUMONT,

Isaac HEITT, W.T.ROBINSON, Jonathan LOVELESS, Tod ROBINSON, Jr., and Ed.GRAYSON of this city, took their departure for Texas. The party were well mounted and armed, and had an excellent outfit in every respect.” Ship Osborne Howes, from Manilla November 7^th, brings 2,100 bags coffee, 41,568 bags sugar, 800 bales hemp and 137 bales jeans, to Coleman.

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Sacramento Daily Union

Monday, March 16, 1863

 

FOR STOCKTON - The insane Italian who has been confined at the station house three or four days, and whose condition was such on Friday night that his recovery was deemed doubtful, has greatly improved as to health, and will be sent to Stockton to-day. It is ascertained that his name is Agostino GUIRELO; that he has been subject to spells of insanity for several years, resulting from having been badly burned on the back by some accident in the mountains. He stated to a friend yesterday that a relative in San Francisco had defrauded him out of his property.

POLICE COURT - There was but little business done in the Police Court on Saturday. In the case of Mrs. SMITH, charged with selling liquor without a license, the charge was dismissed on payment of costs and agreement on the part of defendant to procure license. In the case of M.T. CROWELL, charged with assault and battery, committed some ten days ago, on P.B. BURBANK, the defendant withdrew the former plea of not guilty and entered a plea of guilty. Sentence deferred until to-day.

WAS NOT GOING - We understand that J.H. GASS informs his friends that he had no intention of leaving the State on board the Shawmut, but that he and his sister merely went on board the vessel to see F. FRANKS and his wife off, and designed to return to San Francisco in the pilot boat. The circumstances of the Shawmut striking Mile Rock did not, it appears from this statement, interfere in the least with his plans and designs.

J. H. GASS - Since Friday evening, J.H. GASS, in default of bail, has occupied an apartment in the county jail. It is supposed that an effort will be made to obtain a reduction in bail, and that he will thereupon be released. The report gains credence that others are implicated in some of his illegal transactions, and that a strong effort will therefore be made to secure his ultimate discharge.

ARRESTS - A man named Thomas MINNICH was arrested on Saturday by officer CHILDS, on a charge of being drunk and sleeping on the sidewalk. A Mexican named Intarach was arrested by officer CHAMBERLAIN on a charge of vagrancy.  Intarach had camped for some time in a hollow tree near Ninth and C streets, and was suspected of earning his living by stealing.

SUPREME COURT - In the Supreme Court on Saturday, in the case of the Trustees of Columbia College vs. Ish, on motion of appellant and stipulation filed, leave was given to withdraw transcript. VERZAN vs. McGREGOR - On motion of BEATTY of counsel, and stipulation, leave given to withdraw transcript.

COURT IN YOLO - Judge McKUNE, of the Sixth Judicial District, will, according to law, open Court this morning at Woodland, Yolo county. A week’s time will probably finish up the business of the term.

ADMITTED TO PRACTICE - J.B. BARKER was on Saturday, on motion of H.O.  BEATTY, and filing affidavit of admission to the Supreme Court of the State of Illinois, admitted to practice in the Supreme Court.

FOR TRIAL TO DAY - Richard DELANY and Peter DOWNS will be tried in the Court of Sessions to day on a charge of grand larceny, in robbing a miner at the saloon of NEARY & BREEN.

INSANE - Lieutenant CHAMBERLAIN arrested an unknown man last evening on suspicion of insanity.

DEATHS - Five deaths occurred in the city during the past week, as appears from the mortality report.

SHOOTING - Two men named RAMSEY have been bound over in Solano county for shooting one John GOAKLEY in Green Valley, in a dispute about land. The wound is not serious.

SAD ACCIDENT - At Yreka lately, a little daughter of one SCHEID, while playing in a swing, broke one of her legs.

WARNING TO DESERTERS - The Grand Jury of New York dismissed the complaint against Michael BRADY, who, while acting as a member of the Provost Marshal’s guard, shot a deserter who was escaping from him.

GOOD CLAIM - One-eighth interest in the SPANGLER claim on the lower end of Humbug, in Siskiyou county, was bought lately by one Alexander MOORE for $2,500.

FURTHER ACCOUNT OF THE STEAM TUG MERRIMAC DISASTER - The Body of Captain

J.S. GARWOOD was found on Saturday late on the beach one mile north of Eel river, and thirteen miles south of Humboldt bar. He was drowned when the steam tug Merrimac was recently lost on the Humboldt bar. His body was brought down to this city by the steamer Panama. We are informed that the bodies of two or three drowned persons have been found who were on the Merrimac. The Humboldt Times of March 7^th says, however, that none had ben found previous to the 6^th instant. - Bulletin, Mar. 14^th.

INDIANS KILLED - The Oroville Union of March 14^th says:

We learn from a gentleman who came down from Chico on Thursday that a party of whites, a few days ago, residing some seven or eight miles above that place, killed three Indians who were employed on a ranch in the vicinity, on suspicion that they were in league with the mountain Indians who committed the late outrages.

SUICIDE BY HANGING - A Frenchman named Peter COOK committed suicide by hanging himself in his cabin at Empire Flat, not far from French Corral, Nevada county, on Wednesday, March 11^th. Drink is assigned as the cause.

ACCIDENT - A man named Benjamin T. CONGER, while returning from French Corral to San Juan lately, was run away with by his horse, leaped from his buggy and had his leg broken.

KILLING INDIANS - The Humboldt Times of March 7^th has the following:

We learn from K.N. GEAR, who passed Fort Seward last week, that the “mocassin men” at that place killed twenty-three Indians a few days ago. One of the men had gone out hunting and camped for the night, when the Indians commenced coming into his camp, a few at a time, till seventeen had intruded their presence upon him. He was satisfied they intended to murder him, and accordingly set his wits to work to save his bacon. He proposed to stop there with them and they would hunt and kill game together. This the Indians agreed to, and the bucks started out for a hunt. Going near Fort Seward, where the balance of the whites were stopping, the three Indians forgot to come back to camp in the evening, but in their stead about fifteen white men came. They found twenty Indians in camp and left them where they were found - but they will tell no tales.

SINGULAR CONDUCT - The Mountain Democrat of March 14^th relates the following:

A fine looking, well-dressed young man named George P. CHAPMAN, formerly from Salina, New York, but of late a resident of San Francisco, was seen on Thursday, near Smith’s Flat, stabbing himself with a pocket knife in the left breast. When arrested eight severe but not dangerous cuts were discovered over his heart. He had in his possession a small amount of gold coin and a $500 United States sever per cent bond, payable to his own order, which he offered to a gentleman who arrested him for a revolver with which to shoot himself. He was laboring under a temporary fit of derangement. He was brought to town and placed under the charge of Sheriff HUNTER, who has his money, etc.

OF COURSE - To ensure the departure of the rebel Terry for Texas, the Dutch Flat Enquirer (Secession) says:

As a brother of Judge TERRY died recently, it is probable that he will visit Texas and look after the estate before it is confiscated by the Confederates.

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Sacramento Daily Union

Wednesday, March 18, 1863

 

MIKE BRANNIGAN DISCHARGED - In the Court of Sessions yesterday morning J.W. COFFROTH, one of the counsel for the State in the case of The People vs.  BRANNIGAN, stated that the principal witness in the case, Edith MITCHELL, was at Victoria, and would not return to California to testify on the trial of the cause. He was therefore willing, with the consent of the District Attorney, that a nolle prosequi should be entered and the defendant discharged. There being no objection to the proposition, the order was entered, and Mike was released form the annoyance and perplexity of a second trial.

THE WRONG CAN - A few days ago, at one of our city hotels, the cook was somewhat surprised, on resorting to the milk can just left by the milkman, to find that it contained nothing but pure water. On demanding an explanation of the milkman, on his next return, he frankly acknowledged that, instead of bringing in a can of milk properly diluted with water, he had by mistake left that which contained the diluting substance itself. He had designed, as was his custom, to distribute the water pro rata among his customers. The unreasonable landlord gave full credence to the explanation, but at once changed milkmen.

INSANE - A man named Michael CODY was yesterday arrested by officer CHILDS and taken to the station house on suspicion of insanity. He was removed during the afternoon to the County Hospital. Bertha ALVERDE, who was on Monday taken to the station house on account of insanity and released was again taken in charge by officer CHILDS. She was subsequently visited by the Examining Committee, and pronounced insane. She will probably be taken to Stockton to-day.

THE CHAIN GANG - The chain gang, under the supervision of Overseers DREMAN and LONG, was engaged yesterday in repairing the J street bridge and in reconstructing the road formerly built across the slough, a short distance below the bridge.

THE COURTS

Supreme Court - Present: COPE, J., NORTON, J.

Tuesday, March 17^th

In the matter of the Estate of PACHECO - Motion to dismiss appeal, and also motion to strike out statement, denied.

MULFORD vs. DENN - PEARIS intervenor - On motion of K.B. CROCKER, and filing stipulation herein, ordered that appeal be dismissed.  People vs. GAUNT - On motion of HILLYER, order of continuance set for hearing on Saturday next.

ROGERS et al. vs. SWINFORD et al. - Motion to reinstate cause argued by CROCKER for appellant and HEREFORD for respondent, and granted.  FREEBORN et al. vs. BAEDER et al - Argued by LEWIS for appellant, and ROSENBAUM and BEATTY for respondent, and submitted.  GLUCKAUF vs. REED - On motion of LEWIS, of counsel for appellant, submitted on briefs. Leave to respondent to file brief in twenty days.  MAISON vs. VAUGHN - Argued by BEATTY for respondent and LEWIS for appellant and submitted. Leave to appellant to file brief in ten days; leave to respondent to file brief in twenty days.

LUMBERT vs. HOAD - Judgement affirmed from the bench.  EVERETT et als. Vs. Hydraulic F.T. Company - On motion of H.O. BEATTY of counsel, submitted on briefs.

GLUCKAUF vs. BLIVENS - On motion of BEATTY, of counsel, submitted on briefs.

RHODES vs. CRAIG et als. - Argued by RHODES, appellant, and submitted on brief. No appearance for respondent.

TOMPKINS, administrator, vs. WEEKS, et al. - Motion of CADWALADER to strike out statement, etc., taken under advisement. Motion of RHODES for writ of certiorari granted, and on further motion cause submitted on briefs.  Leave to respondent to file brief in thirty days; leave to appellant to file brief in twenty days.

CHASE vs. TURNER - On motion of RHODES, of counsel, submitted on briefs.  Irvine vs. McKEON - On motion of HYER, submitted on brief to be filed in forty days.

McDERMOTT vs. HIGBY - On motion to Tod ROBINSON, and stipulation filed, submitted on briefs. Leave to appellant to file brief in twelve days; leave to respondent to file brief in thirty days thereafter; leave to appellant to reply to respondent’s brief in ten days.

PATTERSON vs. Keystone Mining Company - On motion of H.O. BEATTY, of counsel, submitted on brief.

LATHROP vs. MIDDLETON - Argued by Lewis for appellant, and ROSENBAUM for respondent, and submitted. Leave to file brief in thirty days.  Adjourned until ten o’clock A.M. to-morrow.

HOUSE BURNED - On Saturday night, March 14^th, the recent residence of one PEARCE, between Dr. KENT’s and the toll-gate on the Washington road, Nevada county, was burned.

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Sacramento Daily Union

Tuesday, March 24, 1863

 

BY TELEGRAPH TO THE UNION

Departure of the Constitution - The California Cavalry Battalion - Habeas

Corpus Case - Fire - Incorporations - The Market - Arrival From San Pedro

SAN FRANCISCO, March 23d

Steamship Constitution got off about noon with the California Cavalry Battalion, number three hundred and seven officers and men. There was an immense crowd to see the volunteers off, and cheer upon cheer was given. The uniformed militia of the city composed the escort and the salutes were fired by a section of the old California Guard Artillery. A full military brass band was in attendance.  There were about ninety cabin passengers. The shipments of treasure were to New York, $214,852.97; to England, $878,594.24; to Panama, $18,200.

A writ of habeas corpus was issued for a boy aged seventeen years, named Isaac GOLINSKY, who enlisted in the cavalry contingent, but the steamer got away before the warrant could be served.

Gold bars were plentiful; legal tenders left off at 63a66.

H.S. ROOT, a pioneer, died this morning. He leaves a family in New York.

Juan Felix PENA, who came to California in 1880, died recently.  Five frame buildings, southwest corner of Folsom and Fremont streets, were destroyed by fire this morning. The buildings were owned by G.B. GRANT, who looses about $4,000. It was the work of an incendiary.  The following mining companies incorporated to-day: Golden Rule Gold and Silver, Tuolumne county - capital, $300,000; Cerro Moreno Gold and Silver, Genoa district, $200,000; Golden Spur Gold and Silver, Esmeralda, $180.000;

Shenandoah Gold and Silver, Esmeralda, $400,000; Humboldt Gold and Silver, Russ district; $540,000; Rose Gold and Silver, Nevada, $340,000; San Mateo Coal, Iron and Plaster, for San Mateo county - Capital, $60,000, one hundred dollar shares.

The people of Victoria have subscribed $904 to the sanitary fund.  A New York telegram says: The butter shipment of the 21^st by the steamer for Aspinwall is only eighty-seven firkins. Crushed sugar is 15 ¾ cents;

New Orleans sugar, 12 ¼ cents; candles (Knapp Bros.), 22 ? cents; nails, 5 ¼ cents’ linseed oil, raw, $1.90; boiled, $2.

The steamer Pacific has arrived from San Pedro with the Senator’s passengers and freight.

[SECOND DISPATCH]

Suicide of Ellen Moon

SAN FRANCISCO, March 23d - 11:25 P.M.

The Coroner held an inquest to-night on the body of Ellen MOON, proprietress of Ivy Green Saloon, who committed suicide last evening. She was last seen alive at four o’clock P.M. Sunday, and was found dead at seven o’clock. She was a native of Swansea, Wales, aged 41 years.

THE COURTS

Supreme Court - Present: FIELD, C.J., COPE, J., NORTON, J.

MONDAY, March 23d

In the matter of the Estate of Pacheco vs. Emeric, administrator - On motion of CHASE and filing stipulation, set for Wednesday, 25^th instant.  WHITNEY et al vs. CHASE et al. - On motion of F.B. FELTON and filing stipulation, cause set for Wednesday next, 25^th instant.  BURNS vs. McKENZIE - On motion of M.B. FELTON and filing stipulation, cause set for Wednesday, 25^th inst.

SCHENCK et al vs. EVOY et al. - On morion of Thomas BROWN, cause submitted on briefs.

People ex rel. RANK vs. Board of Supervisors of San Francisco - Argued by FELTON and CRANE for appellant, and LAKE and DWINNELLE for respondent, and submitted. Leave to respondent to file brief in fifteen days.  RILEY vs. PEHL and Wife - Argued by M.S. CHASE for appellant, and T.A.

BROWN for respondent, and submitted. Leave to file brief in ten days.  ALDRICH vs. PALMER et als. - Argued by PIXLEY for appellant, and SHAFTER for respondent, and submitted.

LENT vs. MERRILL et al. - On motion of counsel and stipulation filed, submitted on briefs - Leave to appellant to file briefs in ten days; leave to respondent to reply in ten days thereafter.

People vs. CARPENTER - Continued till to-morrow.

City of Oakland vs. CARPENTER - Continued till tomorrow.

Adjourned till to-morrow at ten o’clock.

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Sacramento Daily Union

Saturday, March 28, 1863

 

BY TELEGRAPH TO THE UNION

The United States Steamer Saginaw - Marriage Suit - Insurance Company

Organized - Incorporations - Suicide

SAN FRANCISCO, March 27

The United States steamer Saginaw is to sail immediately for a cruise down the Mexican coast. The object of the cruise in only conjectured, but it is rumored that the steamer has been placed by Government temporarily at the disposal of Collector RANKIN, who will send her on an expedition to certain ports down the coast to arrest certain parties concerned in the CHAPMAN privateer enterprise, on information disclosed by the investigation now being held in Fort Alcatraz. This is all rumor - no facts obtainable.  In the case of Lucy EAGER against Almarin GROW, the Fourth District Court to-day decided that the marriage contract was null, for the reason that defendant has another wife living.

Sergeant LAWLER was to-day fined $50 for assault upon Captain RYAN.  Manuel GERKEN has been discharged from custody by orders from the State Prison Directors.

The Gould & Curry declares a dividend of $100 per foot.

The Pacific Mutual Insurance Company was fully organized this afternoon.  There are 100 shares at $5,000 per share. Seventy-five shares are already taken, the balance reserved for future distribution.

The Buena Vista Vinicultural Association incorporated to-day. The company will purchase land in Sonoma and Napa counties, and cultivate all descriptions of fruits, grains and plants. Some of the principal vine growers, including Colonel HARASZTHY, are engaged in the enterprise.  Experiments will be made with foreign fruits and cereals. The capital stock is $600,000, in 100 shares.

The following mining companies were incorporated to-day: Comstock Gold and Silver, Sugar Pine district, Tuolumne county; capital $200,000. Queen Bee Gold and Silver, Bodie district, Mono county; capital stock $220,000. Santa Cruz Silver, Lower California; capital stock $120,000. Empire Gold Silver, Coso district, Tulare county; capital stock $120,000. Rhodes’  Northeast Extension Gold, Sacramento; capital stock $300,000. Insurance Gold and Silver, Virginia district, N.T.; capital stock $500,00. La Plata, Gold Hill, Story county, N.T.; capital stock $900,000; Golden Ear Tunnel, Esmeralda; capital stock $100,000.

Schooner Guilhlis, from Punta Arenas, brings 90,000 pounds of coffee, to Larco.

Mrs. LEVY, who lived with her husband, corner of Dupont street and Sullivan’s alley, where they kept a dry goods store, committed suicide to-night by cutting her throat from ear to ear. No cause assigned.

ATTEMPT AT ROBBERY AND MURDER - The Grass Valley National of March 26^th related the following case of a most daring outrage:

Tuesday evening at about half-past nine o’clock a most daring attempt at robbery was made at the residence of E. COLEMAN, of the North Star Quartz Mining Company, French Lead. COLEMAN had been to town and returned at the hour above mentioned, and while sitting in his room reading the paper some person knocked at the door, on opening which he found a pistol presented at his dead by a man in disguise.  His only show was then to step behind the door, and as the robber forced his way in, COLEMAN seized him, and a scuffle ensued, during which both fell to the floor. The noise made by him attracted the attention of a companion of the robber, who, it seems, was stationed outside, and who thereupon rushed in, struck COLEMAN with a knife, and being a powerful man, dragged him off his companion, and hurling him against the wall, succeeded in stunning him for a moment, during which time they both escaped from the house. COLEMAN as soon as he recovered pursued the robbers and succeeded in overtaking them, upon which they turned upon him and threatened to shoot him if he made any attempt at molesting them, and being without a weapon of any kind he was thus compelled to let the robbers escape. Both of the men had their faces blackened, and no doubt had followed COLEMAN from town. Their object evidently was to intimidate him, and then force him to open the Company’ s safe. This attempt is the more daring from the fact that all the neighboring houses had lights burning, the inmates not having retired to rest. We are happy to learn that the wound received by COLEMAN is but a slight one, the robber evidently having missed his aim. COLEMAN displayed great bravery and coolness in the affair, and with anything like an equal chance would have “saved” the ruffians.

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The Sacramento Daily Union

Saturday, April 4, 1863

 

BY TELEGRAPH TO THE UNION

Departures of the Orizaba - The ship Regulator safe - Fire - reported Gold Mine - Orders in reference to vessels - French Observance of Good Friday

San Francisco, March 3d

Steamship Orizaba carried only forty-five passengers all told, and $1,104,699 in treasure. The steamer carried freight valued at $11,000 for New York.

A private dispatch from Boston, received at noon to day, announces the arrival of ship Regulator, heretofore reported burned.  Greenbacks left off at 64.

Seven or eight frame buildings at the northeast corner of Powell and Chestnut streets, owned by Dr. H.A. DAPIERRIS, were destroyed by fire between three and four o?clock this morning. As the wind was blowing, the flames were very rapid, and many of the inmates escaped only in their night clothes. The buildings were valued at $5,000; no insurance. W.V. OPPENHEIM?s soap factory was consumed; loss, $2,500. The buildings were set on fire.  There have been rumors afloat some days past that rich and extensive gold mines have been found in Mt. Diablo. Upwards of a thousand persons have gone from this city. There is some belief that the story was gotten up to benefit steamboat and stage interests.

Notice is given at the Custom House that vessels navigating waters between Mare Island and Vallejo must show their colors in the day time, and will not be allowed to pass at night without first communicating their intentions to the commandant.

The French corvette Corneille displayed her flags at half mast and fired hour guns to-day, in commemoration of Good Friday.

 

Silver Lode Near Dutch Flat - The Dutch Flat Enquirer of April 2d has the following:

It is reported, and we doubt not on good authority, that an extensive and rich silver ledge has been struck but a short distance from our town. The first point discovered was upon Cold Springs Hill, about two and a half miles from Dutch Flat. As soon as it became known, hundreds of miners and speculators rushed to the silver region, and, no doubt, with bright dreams upon their future prospects. The staking off process was immediately commenced, and in a few hours those who were fortunate enough to be first on the ground had secured for themselves and friends several thousand feet.  Representations are made that two assays have been made of rock taken from his ledge, one in San Francisco and the other in Washoe, and the returns made show the yield to be, in silver, $20, and in gold, $5 per ton. If this statement be correct, no reasonable doubt can exist as to the richness and extent of the silver and gold leads in the Dutch Flat and Mountain Springs Districts.

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The Sacramento Daily Union

Monday, April 6, 1863

 

PASSENGERS FOR CALIFORNIA - The following named passengers left New York,

March 11^th, in the Northern Light, for California:

C.F. LIPMAN,

G.A. VAN SYCKLE,

H.B. ACKENBOSS,

Miss WETMORE,

Dumont CLARK,

J.W. McKEE and wife,

Mrs. HARRIS,

A. BERWIN,

W.S. KEYES,

C.T. SMITH and wife,

C. ROBERT,

Sophie ROBERT,

C.S. HOPKINS and wife,

G.T. DAVIS and wife,

F.A. GIBBS,

G. BROWN,

Al. P. STOKES,

James STOKES,

Miss RIVERS,

P.H. WHEELER, wife and two children,

E.N. NEILSON,

H.M. APPLEGATE,

A. PETERSON and wife,

William JAMES,

R.A. SWAIN,

Mrs. ROSENBURG,

L. ROSENBAUM,

Mrs. G.B. WHITE and child,

Miss X.T. BARRETT,

Miss HIRCHEY and child,

V. HAYNES,

G.E. SLOSS,

G. PEASE,

J. RICE,

J.H. McCOY,

N.A. TOPPER,

J.W. VIRHU,

P.H. PENDERGAST,

Mrs. PURDU and child,

Miss RANDALL,

Miss F. KUHN,

F. TOPLIT,

A. HENRY,

Mrs. MARSHALL,

S. WETZENSKI,

Eliza HOZZEGAN,

L. COLLINS,

Jacob DUBLIN,

Wm. B. RAND,

Wm. F. HORTON, wife and child,

Wm. ARMAND and sister,

Wm. SMITH , wife and child,

B. HELD,

S.C. BEAVER,

Mrs. O. DWYER and child,

C.B. GOULD,

A. HOLMES,

J.B. BRYANT,

J. CENTER, Jr.,

V.N. MANSFIELD,

W.H. BROOKS,

Ellen R. PRINCE,

Addie V. BROWN,

Madame DUCHARTRETTE,

Bridget ROACH,

Mrs. C.B. GOULD,

Jane MORRIS,

C.B. BROOKS,

Tappan REEVES,

Thomas WELSH,

H.T. WOOD,

H.J. CLARK,

D.D. PARLIN,

C.W. YORK and wife,

J.A. ADAMS,

John COLLINS,

Augusta NICKERSON,

Abba NICKERSON,

Matta CLARK,

Adelia DICKENSON,

Margaret MULLINS,

Mrs. F. RHONDSA and child,

Sophie K. DREW,

Hannah B. RUSSELL,

A. SMITH,

J.W. PERRY,

Miss S.A. SAULSBURY,

Miss Mary SAULSBURY,

J. HUNEMANN,

T.H.B. LOWRY,

Mrs. BURNS,

_______ CAN and child,

Miss VAN DYKE,

H. KRAFE and sister,

G.H. HOWARD, wife and ch.,

Julia POETT,

Sarah POETT,

Emily ABBOTT,

G.W. VINCENT,

C.L. BUGBEE,

Parson BROWN and son,

T.G. PHELPS,

Miss HOPPER,

Dr. PARDEE,

R.M. HOWLAND,

Miss E.A. McKINNON,

Woodhull HELM,

M. STRAUSS,

L.D. SIMPSON,

J.F. FRIEDMAN,

Lieut. BOLLS and wife,

D.S. LUNT,

J. CONLEY,

J.S. HAYDEN,

Miss EVANS,

Eliza S. HALEY,

Mrs. S. HALEY and 3 ch?n.,

Mrs. O?KARN and daughter,

J.M. ROBINSON,

C. POUSHER,

C. SHOURDS and wife,

Susan EDSON,

Eliza EDSON,

Lucy EDSON,

Mrs. H.C. CROLEY,

E.B. EDSON,

Mrs. VICTOR,

N. WAIT,

D.H. McDANIEL,

Belle PICKLE,

Mrs. F. PICKLE,

Allen PICKLE,

Miss F. AYERS,

Mrs. P.A. WOOD,

J.A. BENHAM,

W. EDSON and wife,

T.B. SADLEY,

J.H. HATHAWAY,

Frank ROWLEY,

A. WHEELER,

Alex. FENTON,

A.F. JONES,

C.A. EDSON,

J.H. SELMAN,

J.A. COTTLE,

Mrs. S. BROWN,

Rosa GRAF,

Geo. LOCKHARDT,

John KOONTZ,

S. BEVERTON, w and 3 children,

David HUNTZ,

Mary LASWELL & 4 children,

John P. LENTON,

M. FATT, Jr.,

Geo H. COLWELL,

R. DENHAM,

M.A. BURLINGHAME,

Wm. A. HENRY,

Blanche MILLER,

Mrs. C.W. LERMOND,

L. NICHOL,

A. RECSPECK,

O.S. DODSON,

Isabella McLELLAN,

Anna McLELLAN,

Augusta ABERALLY,

Wm. McLELLAN,

Mrs. FERRIS and 2 children,

Mrs. H. JORDAN and child,

Margaret ROACH,

Bridget SHEHAN,

M.S. HORAN,

C.M. WILLARD,

N.R. SMITH,

Hy FRANCE,

Margaret MULHOLLAND,

Bridget STANTON,

John McCALLAN,

Margaret JORDAN,

S.W. HATCH,

E. GOFFIN,

S. NEWITSKY

FATAL AFFRAY - A fatal affray occurred at Grizzly Bend, nine miles below Chico, lately, between two men named respectively Daniel CASEY and Frank BIRDSALL, in the course of which the former was stabbed several times by the latter, and so severely that he died the next morning. The difficulty was about some land on which CASEY was located. BIRDSALL gave himself up at Chico, and was held to bail in $1,000 to answer the charge of manslaughter.  He says he was unconscious of having inflicted the fatal blow.

SENT UP - William FITZPATRICK, lately arrested in Sacramento for cutting night watchman BROWN of the Tehama House, San Francisco, has been identified there, and sent up to the Court of Sessions for trial, bail having been demanded in the sum of $1,000.

MATTERS AT AURORA - A correspondent of the Union, writing from this place, March 30^th, says:

Last night again, two stages came in, with twenty-six passengers, and it is a marvel to the citizens where they all find lodgings and accommodation.  The Wide West Company have been digging a well for water for their mill, for the past two weeks. They now have it about completed, with twelve to fifteen feet of water, which is supposed to be ample for their purposes. The mill commenced crushing their rock this morning, and works admirably. It is far the best mill in the district, and has twenty stamps (straight battery), and forty Walekce paws, with the most approved machinery. They are running a tunnel to their ledge, so as to bring the rock direct to the batteries. The Antelope mill is running constantly, crushing rock from their ledge, of which they are taking out an abundance. The Bodie mill has a contract to crush 1,000 tons of rock from the Bodie Consolidation No. 1. The Union mill is crushing rock from the Pond ledge, which yields from forty to seventy dollars to the ton, and they have hardly got their ledge opened.  Gregroy’s mill is crushing from the Sunbeam ledge, which is also scarcely opened.  Winters’ mill has been sold to the Del Norte Consolidation Company.  Last night, when the stage arrived from Carson, news was brought in that the previous evening as two horses were standing in front of Jack WRIGHT’s, the stage station on the east branch of Walker river, a man mounted one of them and started at full speed for this place. Two men from the station mounted horses and rode in pursuit, overtaking him near Sweetwater, about thirty miles distant. They called to him to stop, and which he paid no attention, when one of them drew a pistol and shot him. The person who fired the pistol took off the man?s coat and put it under his head, and left him.  As the stage passed, twenty-four hours after, the corpse was lying by the roadside. The dead man is a stranger. The Coroner of Mono county was notified of the fact, but he decided it was out of his jurisdiction and declined attending to the case.

[ The individual referred to above as having been shot is supposed to be James SEARS, whose case was lately mentioned in the Union. - Eds. Union.] The Virginia Union has the following version of this affair:

A communication to the Virginia Daily Union, and dated at Wright’s Bridge, March 30^th, tells us that while a traveler was at dinner in Maybury’s Station, a man boldly stole his horse and rode off. The traveler went to Wright’s Bridge, on the road between Genoa and Aurora, and having told his story, young RODGERS mounted a horse and started in pursuit of the thief. He came up with him at Sweetwater Ranch, and commanded him to stop;  but he rode the faster, and RODGERS gave chase, calling upon him to stop; but failing in her persuasion, he drew his pistol and shot the thief, killing him almost instantly. The name of the man killed is not known. RODGERS is justified by all the people living in the section of country where he belongs.

The Departure of the Orizaba - The following named passengers sailed for Panama in this steamer April 3d:

Mrs. John BARTON, child and servant; Mrs. John FOWLER, two children and

servant; John W. HENDRIE, Silas W. JOHNSON, James G. STEELE, John HOOPER,

E.B. WILLIAMS, Mrs. M. DU PRATT, G.C. BAILEY, J.N. BAILEY, David PORTER,

Joseph W. GLOVER, Joshua BLENN, George KINGSBURY, Mr. CARVER, Mrs. LIMBACKER

and two children; Geo. W. PENNY, Mrs. Rufina FOSTER, Arthur S. BARTHOLEMEW,

A.M. MITCHELL, Mrs. Ellen CASSIDY, J.J. MORNER, R.R. PROVINES, L.L. LAURENS.

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Sacramento Daily Union

Monday, April 13, 1863

 

The account given by exchanged officers, lately confined as prisoners  in Richmond, of a riot of women in that city, if reliable, may be considered as pretty strong testimony of the scarcity of food in that region. The women would have bread, and they broke open public and private stores in order to obtain it. It is the first affair of the kind that has ever occurred in the United States, though such riots have been witnessed in the city of Paris. A community must be in a terrible state of destitution where the women arm themselves by thousands and demand bread.

FATAL ACCIDENT- On Thursday, April 9^th, John TURNER, known as Peg Leg Turner, met with a fatal accident in Butte county. As he was riding a horse on LYNCH?s ranch, about twelve miles below Oroville, the horse becoming frightened, threw TURNER, his head striking a stake and causing his death.

UNION LEAGUE IN TRINITY COUNTY - A correspondent of the Union, writing from

Douglas City, Trinity county, April 7^th, give the following particulars of the forming of a Union League in that place. Let others “go and do likewise.”

Having noticed in your truly patriotic paper several editorials urging the necessity of a more perfect organization of Union men in the State, and suggesting the formation of Union Leagues, in imitation of those existing in the Eastern States, I have deemed it proper to inform you that the Union men of this district have already organized and established an institution under the name of the ?Douglas City Union League,? with Constitution and ritual adopted, numbering over one hundred members. We have possibly been premature in our action [Not at all. Eds. Union]; but conceived it at this time to be necessary; have acted and are willing to leave it to you for elaboration as an example fit to be followed in other portions of the State. We expect within the next two weeks to have established with uniformity one in every election precinct in this county. I have written the Union Central Committee, advising them of our action, and urging the recommendation for the establishment of similar institutions in other portions of the State.  Uniformity would, however, seem to be necessary, and for this purpose we will with pleasure, upon proper application, furnish to parties in any part of the State a printed copy of our Constitution and working ritual, provided the application comes signed by parties properly qualified by attestation as to their loyalty and devotion to this Government. It might be proper for me to suggest that in districts having militia companies the members of such should be induced to for the nucleus.

NICARAGUA ROUTE - By a dispatch from New York to the agent here we learn that the America, with the passengers hence by steamer Moses Taylor, March 11^th, arrived in New York on the morning of the 8^th of April, they having crossed the Isthmus of Nicaragua without detention or trouble of any kind.  The dispatch also states that the Moses Taylor would not be due at San Francisco  before the 16^th or 17^th, being obliged to go to Realejo for coal.  To avoid this detention, the Company intend coaling hereafter at Acapulco.  The clipper-ship White Falcon, with 1,500 tons of coal, will be dispatched for that port immediately, in order to give the Moses Taylor her coal on her next trip.

COAL MINE - A rich coal mine was discovered a few days since but a short distance from the new silver mines between the South and Cold forks of Cottonwood, about eighteen miles from Red Bluff. The mine is said to be extensive, the lead which was discovered being six feet thick, pure coal, and burns finely, leaving but little if any ashes.

ROBBERY IN CALAVERAS - On Friday evening, April 3d, the dwelling of M.  KADISCH, on Sandy Gulch, was entered and robbed by an American, a Corsican and two Mexicans of $550 in gold dust and coin. The Corsican was captured and committed to the county jail. One of the Mexicans was shot by a party who went in pursuit of the robbers.

SERIOUS ACCIDENT - A man named ROBINSON, barkeeper at the Lick House, San Francisco, was thrown from a buggy lately and sustained a very serious compound fracture of one of his legs. He was riding on the beach with a companion, when his horse became unmanageable and overturned the vehicle.

DEATH OF AN EDITOR - Reese C. FLEESON, one of the editors of the Pittsburg (Pa.) Dispatch, died in that city on March 16^th, after a protracted illness.  FLEESON has been connected with the Dispatch for fifteen years, and with the Pittsburg press for a much longer period.

ACCIDENT - On Thursday night, April 9^th, the house of Mrs. CONNOLLY, in Lancha Plana, was destroyed by fire. Mrs. CONNOLLY and her child were badly burned, and it is thought she can hardly survive. Her husband is at present in the Cariboo mines.

MORE GOOD THINGS - It is claimed by a paper at Virginia City that a miner is the Humboldt region, while running a tunnel, struck a lead of a substance that looks like cotton batting, and states that ship loads of it can be secured. The San Francisco Herald mentions a rumor that a starch mine has been found in Alameda county. Stock is held at stiff rates. Encouraged by this the discoverers are prospecting for shirt buttons, and had already found indication of a clothes line lead!

TROUT - Messrs. APPLETON & MILLS of San Francisco returned lately from a trouting excursion to Half Moon Bay country, having captured in twenty-six hours fishing, the round number of seven hundred trout.

HORRIBLE CRUELTY - Mary NELL, an Irishwoman, thirty-eight years of age, was

arrested lately in New York, charged with causing the death of her male child, aged five years, by burning it in such a terrible manner that it died.

FOUND DEAD - J.C. BRADBURY, a native of Massachusetts, was found dead in a room over his carpenter shop at Petaluma lately. He was habituated to excessive drinking.

ACCIDENT - Joseph SCHUPERT, of Napa, aged four years, while handling a butcher knife, lately, stuck the point into his right eye, entirely destroying the sight.

A YOUTH MISSING - A mother wishes information of her son. See advertisement in this day’s Union, headed “Information wanted of Walter McDONALD.”

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Sacramento Daily Union

Thursday, April 23, 1863

 

HORRIBLE MURDERS ON HAWAII - By the arrival of the Nettie Merill, from Hilo,

we learn that another of those terrible tragedies which have marked the past two or three years of Hawaiian history, had taken place at Kapapala, in the District of Kau, not far from the crater of Kilauea. A native, with an ax, killed his wife, her child, and a man supposed to have been his wife?s paramour. The Government mail carrier, on his way from Kau to Hilo, arrested the murderer and brought him to Sheriff CONEY, at Hilo - Polynesian.

THE HOMICIDE AT NAPA - The following additional particulars concerning the killing of J.W. OSBORN are gathered from the Alta:

BRITTON got down from the stage near OSBORN’s house, and on approaching the dwelling  met one of OSBORN?s children, whom he asked to go and tell her father that he wanted to see him. OSBORN was at home and went out to see BRITTON, when they walked away from the house, talking. The eldest daughter of OSBORN, who is about nine years of age, went in the house and told her mother that BRITTON looked very fierce. A younger daughter, who was near the house, saw BRITTON point the pistol towards her father, and also ran into the house, saying the man was going to hurt her papa. At this moment Mrs.  OSBORN reached the door and heard three shots fired in rapid succession, and running in the direction of the sound found her husband lying on the ground.  As she grasped him in her arms he opened his eyes, recognized her, smiled faintly and fell back dead. The alarm was instantly given and pursuit of the murderer instituted. BRITTON is supposed to have shot OSBORN while the latter was standing in front of him, with his arms thrown back and his thumbs in the armholes of his waistcoat, which was a favorite position of ease with the deceased. The three balls entered the breast within a few inches of each other, and could only take effect that way by the victim not moving after the first shot was fired. The murderer, in fleeing, loaded the empty barrels of his revolver, apparently to resist in case he was overtaken. One BOGGS discovered him, and, leveling a rifle, which had no charge in it, brought him to terms, disarming and making a prisoner of him.  He was taken to Napa City and confined in jail.

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Sacramento Daily Union

Saturday, April 25, 1863

 

PASSENGERS BY THE SONORA - The following additional passengers sailed in the

Sonora, April 23d, for the East:

L.J. WILDER, J.G. POTTER, Edwin LEWIS, Thomas SMITH, and Infant, Timothy FERRIS, Philip FRIEND, D.V. GATES, Milton E. WILLIS, W. BALDWIN and brother, Robt. B. LYON, Adam J. BELLINGER, J.L. JACKSON, Norman MINE and wife, Charles HOFF, Andrew BROWN, W. HANCOCK,  Edward LAIDLEY, Charles CHASMAN, A. KOHLER, martin R.R. COLEMAN, Mrs. R.J. HAZZARD, Mrs. E. AYLIFFE and niece, Francis VIOLA, Pierre CARTENEY, B.D. GRAY, Claus SPRECKLE  and son. W. HOFFMIRE, wife and two children; Azro SINCKLER, W.H. SNYDER, E.L. DEANE, Mrs. J.C. FOLWER, Mrs. P.A. SPRINGER, Mrs. A. F. GORHAM, Andrew SMYTH, Edward COLEMAN, John C. COLEMAN, Warren HUBBARD, wife and two children; A. BRIOT and wife, T.R. GEE, H.W. McCOY and wife, Mrs. ORD, servant and three children; G.W. JOHNSON, W. NEITMAN and child, Thomas J. KINGSLEY, wife and three children; Peter BROWN, F. WHEELER, J.A. WILCOX, wife and two infants; A. DARRACHILL and child, Eliza NIESINK, Mrs. S.D. PETTE and child; Miss H. McQUADE, Mrs. John COLEMAN, three children and servant; Mrs. Frank MAXSON and four children, Mrs. W.G. WOOD, Mrs. G.K. LOUCHLIN and two children, Mrs. Charles ETLER and two infants, Mrs. John H. BIOTE and two children, Mrs. D.R. COLEMAN, Mrs. J.C. PEASE and two infants, Mrs. John MULLEN, Mrs. Clara MUUSS, Mrs. E. JOHNSON and four children, Mrs. J. MACKLEVORGE, Mrs. R. JAMES and two children, Mrs. J. FINKLEE and infant, O. FINKLEE and child, John TAUPLE and wife, Charles DeLANGE, Alfred GODEFFROY, Mrs. Ed. LEAKLE and servant, Frank WHEELER, Noble H. EATON, H.L. HATCH, Mrs. George B. DAVIS, Mrs. John BRACKETT and two children, Mrs. George LOVEJOY and two daughters, Mrs. M. KIMBALL, Mrs. Jacob SMITH, Anne BROPSON, N.J. HIDLEY, Mrs. B. DECKER and child, Mrs. L. CANFIELD and infant, Mrs. LESSER and child, Mrs. R. TYLER, Mrs. GROSSETTE, Miss N.A. TISBER, Mrs. BACHAN, Mrs. E. LOW, Mrs. M.E. PIERSON and infant, Mrs. Henry A. MYER, Mrs. J.P. FORBES and child, A.S. KELLER and child, children of Mrs. JOHNSON, Mrs. T. PFIELKE, Mrs. MOYLE, son and servant; Miss Minnie CARD, Mrs. W.H. SMITH, Mrs. J.B. CUNNINGWOOD, J.W. AUSTIN, wife and child; Mrs. Robert SHERWOOD, three children and servant; Mrs. Captain CARD, two children and servant; W.S. PARROTT, Mes. Jean BACHELMANS, Mrs. LAUNIER and son, Miss Eliza B.F. FOREMAN, Stephen D.  GILMORE, wife and child; Mrs. G.W. COX, Mrs. Rachel S. STREET, U.W. BAUGH.

 

COMMISSIONED - Governor STANFORD has commissioned James M. HUTCHINGS, Notary for San Carlos, Tulare county. Also, the following officers of Forest Rifles, Fourth Brigade: Romanzo LYMAN, Captain; Jos. EVANS, First Lieutenant; H.C. GEORGE, Senior Second Lieutenant; E. MATHEWS, Junior Second Lieutenant.

ROBBERY AT DUTCH FLAT - On Friday night, April 17^th, the brick store of L.  ARNSTEIN, at Dutch Flat, was robbed of money and valuables to the amount of $200. The robber escaped in the midst of a shower of bullets.

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Sacramento Daily Union

Monday, May 1, 1863

 

BY TELEGRAPH TO THE UNION

Terrible Calamity - Steamer Accident and Sad Loss of Life - Captain Seeley and a Number of Passengers Killed

SAN FRANCISCO, April 30^th

The steamer Senator arrived to night from the southern coast in charge of the first officer BUTTERS. Captain T.W. SEELEY was killed on the 27^th instant by the bursting of the boiler of the little steamer Ida Hancock, on her trip down from New San Pedro to the anchorage of the Senator with passengers and freight. The steamer was a small propeller, owned by R.  BANNING of San Pedro, and employed as a tug and in freighting between San Pedro and the ship anchorage. The boiler was new. There were some sixty passengers on board, and the loss of life is fearful. The boat was torn to pieces, and the explosion was heard on board the Senator. Boats were sent from the steamer, and the officers and soldiers of Camp Drum hastened to render assistance. The following is the only list of killed and wounded procurable; it is not complete: Killed - Captain SEELEY, Wm. RITCHIE, W.T.B.  SANFORD, Fred. KERLIN, H.M. OLIVER, R.M. HALL, Dr. H.R. MYLES, Thos.

WORKMAN, NYE, L. SLESSINGER, M. LEVI, Richard PRICE, Joe, Chas. KINNEY,

Joseph BRYANT, Sydney JOHNSTON [son of the late A. Sydney Johnston],

GARDINER, HUBBARD, KIMBALL and MORRISON. Wounded - P. BANNING, Mrs. BANNING,

Willie BANNING, Mrs. SANFORD, Mrs. D. HEREFORD, Mrs. Sue WILSON, Chas.  CUNNINGHAM and J.L. TUCKER. Most of those reported dead were probably killed instantly. RITCHIE, Express Messenger, lived for two hours. A small portion of the Express matter was saved. There were some twenty-five killed in addition to the names reported.

[SECOND DISPATCH]

The Collectorship - Relief of Mrs. J.W.  Osborn and Family - Passengers by

the Moses Taylor - A.A. Sargent - Mexican News - Passengers by the Senator

 

SAN FRANCISCO, April 30th

It is said to be settled that LOW will succeed RANKIN as Collector. LOW was not an applicant, and only accepts the office at the urgent solicitation of Secretary CHASE. It is not known whether he will assume office immediately or wait until the 1^st of July.

The subscription to the fund for the relief of the family of the late Captain OSBORN has reached the sum of $6,300, in addition to which about $2,500 has been promised.

The testimony in the EOFF murder case closed this evening.

The Moses Taylor to-day took about five hundred passengers.  A.A. SARGENT, who is unable for the present to accept the invitation to address a public meeting in this city, has published a letter in response.

The following  dispatch was this day received by the consignees:

NEW YORK, APRIL 29th

The Early Bird sailed from Calcutta March 7^th. Cargo consists of 200 tons yellow grained milled sugar, 150 tons table rice, 221,000 gunnies. No ship loading, nor is there a chance for any for some months.  A letter dated “Chilapa, Mexico, April 16^th,” says: On the 5^th and 6^th inst., the French, after severe fighting and suffering great slaughter, retained a portion of the town. On the 7^th, however, the Mexicans repulsed them with still greater slaughter, driving them at the point of the bayonet to GARITA of Mexico, from which  place they (the French), retired to Cholula, after suffering a most terrible loss. They are now fortifying themselves.

The passengers arrived to-night by the Senator are J. HESS, J. CHEENY,

N.L. EVIL, STROBILl, G. GOLDWATER, S.H. KNOWLES, DE LA GUERRA, FRESHMAN,

J.D. CUSHENBERG, J. COHN and lady, Captain WATSON, U.S.N.; Miss G.M. THOMPSON.

The Morrison reported as killed is supposed to be a brother of Murray MORRISON.

On the passage of ship King Lear, from China, a seaman named David NEWCOMB was lost overboard.

PASSENGERS FOR THE EAST - The following named persons have taken passage in the Moses Taylor, which leaves San Francisco to-day for Nicaragua:

Mrs. M.E. LITTLEFIELD, child and servant; Mrs. S.M. SLAUGHTER and child,

J.M. BURGES, John RODGERS, Mrs. J. HOUGHAN, Miss HOUGHAN, H.S. ALLEN, J.M.

ACKLEY, J.A. JONES, J.S. GOLDSMITH, Mrs. Dr. BEHRENS, A.G. MOORHEAD, P.S.

RITTER, Mrs. M.B. PRICE, Mrs. E.F. ANTHONY, A.J. NORRIS, M. SENNATE, J.H.

MORRISON, Mrs. A. REA, Mrs. M. COLBY, Robert KERR, Miss Lizzie HADLEY, Mrs.

G. McGOVERN, George H. MORRIS, William ARNOLD, Mrs. Lydia L. SENTER, C.D.

DOUGLAS, J.P. BAUDIN, J.T. NOYCE, R.H. HANCHETT, L.E. CLOW, Mrs. A. WILCOX,

D. BROWN, P. SULLIVAN, William CAROLIN, Miss ROBBINS, Miss TAYLOR, Samuel

HARDSTAY, Rev. F.S. BLAKE, Mrs. Frances SLEVEN, J.H. McCLOSKEY, Mrs.

HOLLAND, B. WATROUS, Mrs. J. HUTCHISON, J.R. MORGAN,. C.A. WALKER, Mrs.WALKER and child, Mrs. H.M. TOLLS, Miss M. LARAMY, Mrs. J.L. EATON, servant and two children; Mrs. J. HAMBLIN, L. WAKEFIELD, Mrs. WAKEFIELD and child;

A.C. GROW, Mrs. GROW and child, Mrs. E. GORDON, W.B. McCOLLUM, Mrs. E.

RICHARDS, Philip KEAGER, Robert GRANT, W. WESTON, J.M. GRIMES, H. COLEMAN,

Mrs. COLEMAN and infant, S.P. BROWN, Moses G. KELLY, S.P. LEWIS, Rev. D.

BLAIN, Mrs. BLAIN and child, S.P. BROWN, Moses G. KELLY, Mrs. McCABE and

child, J.P. BANDIN, S.P. BROWN, J.A. BURTON, B.F. GOODMAN, W.P. GOODWIN,

Mrs. W.P. GOODWIN, A.J. JONES, Charles A. GALE, L.W. GILCHRIST, Mrs. SCHLER,

Mrs. J.G. SCHOLAR , child and infant; Mrs. L.J. FOWLER, C.D. DOUGLAS and about 230 steerage.

DARING ROBBERY - The Sonoma Democrat tells about two cousins, named respectively Levi and Oliver LEWIS, aged nineteen and twenty-four years who have been arrested in that county for stealing one hundred head of cattle.  They were held over in the sum of $1000 each.

 

Sacramento Daily Union

Friday, May 1, 1863

THE VALIANT FINNERTY - The San Francisco Bulletin of April 29^th has the following version of the assault of FINNERTY on Senator POWERS, and its consequences. The affair has already been referred to in the Union:

While the Chrysopolis was still lying at her landing at Sacramento, FINNERTY, one of the Senate porters, came on board just drunk enough, as out informant expresses it, to be abusive, and stepping up to Senator POWERS of Solano began to talk in the most outrageous style to him because he had voted with CHAMBERLAIN, Porter of Santa Cruz, WALLIS and others against the resolution to raise $1 a day the pay of attaches. At last FINNERTY pulled off his coat, threw down his hat, and evinced his anxiety to get a fight out of the Senator - but as the Senator avoided that he struck him.  A tussel followed, and FINNERTY was captured and taken off the boat.  Just as she was starting off FINNERTY appeared again on board, bare-headed and more furious than ever. Finally he struck a blow at POWERS, but did not hit him. FINNERTY then clinched, POWERS shook him off and struck him with his heavy cane. The cane did hit the deck, but not FINNERTY, and was utterly smashed. Several men now rushed in to capture the infuriated FINNERTY. Nap.  BROUGHTON drew the sword of his cane and tendered it to POWERS, but the Senator declined to take it. The drunken man was carried to the guard, and might in the melee have fared worse, but that Captain CHADWICK appeared and quelled the disturbance. That, however, did not happen until in the squeeze FINNERTY fell and some one on him. Seeing that by the fall FINNERTY was seriously hurt, he was taken below, where it was found that he had suffered a compound fracture of one of his legs. A Frenchman set the broken bone, and splinted it up. After FINNERTY had slept a while, he awoke and expressed a desire to apologize to Senator POWERS. The Senator went below, when FINNERTY told him that he must apologize! “I can’t attend to the matter myself,” said he, “but I have a brother at San Francisco who will fight you, if you don’t, any way you choose.” Later in the evening he asked if he would be able to walk up. “No,” answered a bystander, “you won’t walk again these three months.” “Oh, that’s too bad,” groaned the injured man, “I wanted sure to be at the State Convention.”

INJURED - A man named BARTON was badly injured lately by the caving of a large rock, while at work on his claim on Flume Bar, near Jacksonville, Tuolumne county; his nose was broken, his face and head badly cut.

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Sacramento Daily Union

Saturday, May 2, 1863

 

MORE PASSENGERS BY THE MOSES TAYLOR.

The following additional passengers left in the Moses Taylor, April 30th, to proceed East via Nicaragua:

Mrs. J.O. LANG, ____ RICHARDSON, J. MEYERS, H. BOSSER, F. SHAW, J.C. LAWSON, H.D. COGSWELL, Mrs. COGSWELL, E.W. LLOYD, H. SALTONIAN, W. ROSE, J. SOLOMON, Adolph MEYERS, W. PARISH, E.P. CUTIER, E.A. LEWIS, A. MEYERS, James GRIMES, Miss J. MEAD, Mrs. LINK, Mrs. THRUG, child and infant, J.W. CROWELL, Captain F. DRAKE, James DOYLE, Dr. J.C. SPEARE, Miss M.B. FISHER, Mrs. J.B.  ROBBINS, and about 360 in steerage.

 

SENTENCE DISAPPROVED - Twenty of the Anderson Cavalry were lately condemned to death for mutiny by Court martial. General ROSECRANS disapproved of the sentence, and the men were ordered to return to duty. Their pardon is conditional on their future good behavior.

 

SYCAMORES DYING - It is stated that many of the large sycamore trees on the banks of the Yuba river and on the low lands are dying from the effects of overflow of the river.

 

EMPHATIC - General WRIGHT, in his order dismissing from service Captain C.W.C. ROWELL and First Lieutenant A.C. HASKELL of the Fourth Infantry, California Volunteers, says:

The good of the service demands, and the Government requires, that prompt and cheerful obedience shall be rendered by the inferior, and that all orders shall be executed with alacrity. The disorderly and mutinous condition of the battalion of the Fourth Infantry at Camp Drum, on the 2d of April, could have been prevented by the officers present, had they rendered proper and efficient aid to the commanding officer. Two of these officers have lost their commissions, and the fate of the others who proved derelict to their duty at that crisis is reserved for further consideration by the commanding General. The Commander of the District of Southern California (Colonel BOWIE), when the condition of affairs at Camp Drum was reported to him, should have promptly restored Major HANCOCK to the command which had been forcibly wrested from him by his subordinates, and arrested all officers and men engaged in that unlawful proceeding. The authority of the rightful commander should have been sustained; under no circumstance should a compromise have been made with mutineers.

 

AN INCIDENT - The Mariposa Gazette says that there is now living in that county a Democrat of the old school, who now belongs to the Union party and never uses the word Democrat. One of his neighbors recently asked him how it was the so determined a Democrat as he was and had been had ceased claiming to belong to that party.  The old man replied: “I was a Democrat when Democrats were for their country and advocated Democratic principles; but those who call themselves Democrats are the very men whom I have always opposed - old Tories and Know Nothings; and even traitors, in order to conceal their treason, claim to be Democrats. I can?t go with traitors - I won’t unite with the enemies of my country, and so you see I drop the name Democrat, and am only a Unionist.” There are many more of like opinions.

 

FLOWERS OVER THE MOUNTAINS - A man named CLEMENS has arrived in Virginia

City from Sacramento with a wagon load of flowers. The majority of them were in fine condition, the pots having been carefully packed in damp straw. The load consisted of about two hundred plants, embracing a great variety of roses, geraniums, verbenas, fuchsias, orange trees, oleanders - in fact almost every species of flower known to house culture. The prices of the plants ranged from $3 to $10 a pot, the geraniums and orange trees being the extremes, while the roses were all $5 a pot, irrespective of quality. The plants sold quite rapidly. Mrs. CLEMENS took over a load about two weeks since.

ROBBER - A cabin of Anderson & Co., near the Buena Vista ranch, Nevada county, was entered lately and robbed of a $400 check and several articles of clothing.

 

FATAL ACCIDENT - A workman in the Ophir mine, named Jim CALLAHAN, fell down

a shaft of that claim lately, at Virginia City, a distance of sixty-four feet, and was instantly killed.

 

 

Sacramento Daily Union

Saturday, May 2, 1863

 

 

BY TELEGRAPH TO THE UNION

Eoff Acquitted - Treasure Receipts - Funeral of Captain Seeley – Further Particulars of the Explosion - Arrival

SAN FRANCISCO, May 1st.

The topic of conversation to-night is the acquittal of Joseph EOFF for the murder of CHAPMAN. The jury retired soon after four this evening, and were only absent a few moments whey they returned with a verdict of not guilty.  It was proved that CHAPMAN fired the first shot, though the testimony altogether seemed to show that EOFF incited the difficulty and intended to hurt CHAPMAN.  The verdict occasions much surprise as the case was prosecuted with great vigor.

 

Receipts of treasure from the interior since last steamer day amount to $1,700,000. Gold bars are $20@330. The Gould and Curry Company sold to-day $75,000 at ¼ premium. Legal tenders, 64@66.

 

Four hundred passengers are booked for the Constitution to-morrow.  James M. McDONALD sues the Omnibus Railroad Company for $25,000 damages for breaking his leg.

 

The funeral of Captain SEELEY to-day was very largely attended. The flags of the hipping were at half mast. The telegraph wires to Los Angeles, which have been down for a month, were put in working order this afternoon and the following dispatch was received:

“Los Angeles, May 1st - The latest particulars from the explosion of the Ada Hancock are as follows: The bodies found are those of Thomas H. SEELEY, Captain of the steamer Senator; William RITCHIE, Express Messenger of Wells, Fargo & Co.; Charles KING, of Fort Tejon; a Mexican, name and whereabouts unknown; Hiram KIMBALL and ____ ATKINSON, Mormon missionaries from Salt Lake; Joseph BRYANT, Captain of the steamer Ada Hancock; A.P. GARDNER, La Paz; SWEENY, LINSBY, a teamster, man unknown; William S.B. SANFORD, of Los Angeles; T.E. KEELIN, of Tejon Reservation; Captain NYE, R. M. HALL, San Francisco, H.M. OLIVER, of La Paz (the head, shoulders and chest only of Oliver were found); C.P. HUBBARD, of La Paz; Thos. H. WOODMAN, chief clerk of Banning; Dr. R.H. MYLES, Los Angeles; two colored men, R. PRICE and Wm.  Jan. PRATT, of Colorado; Sydney JOHNSTON, eldest son of General A. Sydney JOHNSTON, of Los Angeles. The following list includes those who were known to be on the steamer and whose bodies have not yet been recovered: Mr. LEVY, San Bernardino; L. SCHLOSSINGER, Los Angeles; John RODGERS, deck hand. It is stated that some fifteen or twenty not known were lost, whose bodies are not yet recovered. Several casualties are noted: A. CHELLIS, of San Luis Obispo, suffered a fracture of the thigh. Wm. W. WARDELL, of Santa Cruz, suffered a contusion. John GETTAMAR, of Siskiyou county, had a broken arm. Charles CUNNINGHAM, from the Colorado mines, a contusion. Henry BEER, Yreka, contusion. J. PHILLIPS, deck hand, fracture of the elbow. Wm. JACKSON, Colorado mines, scald and contusion. G.L. TUCKER, of San Francisco, formerly of this place, fracture of both bones of left leg. Mrs. BANNING, contusion of the head and probably some internal injuries. Mrs. SANFORD, mother of Mrs. BANNING, had her right leg and left arm fractured. Miss M. HEREFORD suffered a contusion of the head. Mr. BANNING, internally injured. Miss, WILSON, daughter of D. WILSON, contusion. A.C. YEARY, fracture of the leg.  WELSH, scalded slightly. Mrs. L. COHN, two children and servant, of Los Angeles, were on board the Hancock. Mrs. COHN escaped with a slight contusion. The servant escaped uninjured, and was taken into a boat, having the child, an infant, in her arms, which received only a very slight scratch upon the left side of the head. Mrs. COHN showed herself a heroine, displaying great presence of mind; she recovered her oldest child, about two years of age from the water among the fragments of the wreck. For some time its life was considered hopeless, but it was restored by the perseverance of the mother, and by frictions and bathings with brandy . The marks left upon it have the appearance of a scald, otherwise the child appears to be in perfect health. Two children of Mr. BANNING were also on board, of whom one only received a slight scald. Both of these children were saved from the wreck by Darkness, a colored servant girl of Mrs. BANNING, who displayed undaunted courage and rendered great assistance to numbers of others. During the whole excitement she remained perfectly calm, and was the means of keeping several of the ladies;? heads above water for some time after the vessel had gone down. Only three person besides the little child of Mr.  BANNING (viz: the child of Mrs. COHN and the two servants as above states) escaped without injury. William KING, a young man, and a fireman and a Mexican escaped unscathed. The explosion was instantaneous. No vestige of the boiler or the flues upon which it stood were left. Pieces of the shattered boiler were found upon a small island a distance of three-quarters of a mile from the wreck. Splinters from the vessel were thrown into Government Corral, three-quarters of a mile from the scene of the disaster.  BANNING himself was thrown a hundred feet. At ten o?clock this morning BANNING was in a critical state from injuries received internally, though Dr. GRIFFIN has hopes of his recovery. The body of Captain SEELEY shielded BANNING from instant death.”

Arrived - British bark Panteloss, 181 days from Liverpool, to Depuy, Foulkes & Co.

 

COPPER IN AMADOR - A correspondent at Ione Valley writes as follows:

The copper excitement still continues in this vicinity. Many are meeting with very flattering prospects. The Newton Company is taking out very rich ore and in large quantities. A number of others have found good ore, but are not deep enough yet to find it in large quantities. Claims are changing hands at $2 to $15 per foot unprospected.

 

BRUTALITY - On the night of the 15th of April some villain entered the inclosures of William NIX, on Three Mile creek, Oregon, and singling out a fine American horse, cut his throat so as to cause death, and then cut and hacked the animal in the most shocking manner.

 

 

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Sacramento Daily Union

Monday, May 4, 1863

 

SHOOTING AFFAIR - In San Francisco lately a man named John LAWLOR, who some time since had a difficulty with J.M. CANNON, which led to a challenge to fight a duel being passed between them, and for which they were arrested and afterwards discharged from the Police Court, went into the bar-room of the Bank Exchange, where he found CANNON conversing with some friends. LAWLOR, it is said, immediately drew a revolver and fired four shots at CANNON, one of the balls entering the breast pocket of  his coat and afterwards discovered buried in the leaves of a memorandum book , where it had fortunately lodged. LAWLOR was arrested, but was released from custody on giving bonds in the sum of $500 to appear before the Police Court for examination. The charge of assault and battery with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, made against him, was continued in the Police Court until Monday, May 4^th.

DROWNED - On Wednesday, April 29^th, an empty team , on its way to Red Bluff, attempted to cross Cottonwood creek, and when in the swift water the king-bolt came out and the bed of the wagon was capsized, precipitating three men who were in it into the water, one of whom by the name of MULLARKY, was drowned.

KILLED BY INDIANS - Jonas L. BRAYTON and Isaac WANDELL, of Mendocino county, were attacked and murdered by the Indians, on the Pyatt river (Oregon), on the night of March 3d. The murdered men, in company with N. JEWETT and John BURTON, were on their way from the Boise mines in Auburn. At the time of the killing the party were preparing to camp for the night, and had become separated in the operation.

PETITION FOR PARDON - A petition to Governor STANFORD for the pardon or commutation of the death sentence, in the case of Jacob GREER, now under sentence of death in the Butte county jail, has been circulated about Oroville for several days, but does not appear to be extensively signed.

PASSENGERS BY THE CONSTITUTION - The following is the list of passengers who left in the steamer Constitution for the East, May 1^st:

J.G.S. ANDERSON, W.P. GASKILL, E.R. FALKNER and wife, Henry SHARP, Mrs. C.C. BELCHER and niece, Captain PEASE, P.B. ROGERS, Mrs. Amanda HARRISON and child, George F. SYLVESTER, Mrs. W. MITCHELL and two children, A. PETERSON, A.K. JOHNSON, Captain Pease’s servant, James CAMPBELL, Mrs. RICE and two children, Mrs. William JONES, Miss ROOT, E. FITZGERALD, wife, daughter and son; Mrs. Francis CUTTING and child, Mrs. Captain W.W. CLARK, Mrs. P.A.  ATKINSON and servant, Mrs. Nathan SODERER and two children, Mrs. Frederick SMITH and child, Mrs. J.L. ALBOUGH, Jules GULRIOT, Judge MUNSON, J.C. BELDEMAN, A.G. RAMSDELL, S.H. HARMAN, wife and child; Charles E. ELLIOTT, wife, two children and servant; Mrs. Mary E. BAKER, Mrs. Hannah GRAY, Mrs. BOLLES, N. RAWSON, N.P. BALDWIN, Seaton HEATHER, Mrs. E.L. VAN ALTEN and daughter, Mrs. J.B. WELLER and two children, B.C. TAYLOR, Charles CURRY, Mrs. BELCHER, Miss WIDEMAN, Mrs. PETTINOS, Miss GREENHOW, Miss M.S. CONNELL, Mrs. CHAMBERLAIN and sister, H.K. MITCHELL, John CROOKS, Mrs. Niles SEARLS, Mrs. L.L. HELM and two children, C.E. SCRANTON, B. RODGERS, Rev. J. McCARTY and wife, L. ST. JOHN, wife, child and servant; Charles BAINBERGER, D.G. DENNY, William HARPER, wife and three children; Mr. ANDERSON, Edward H. PARKER, wife and servant; Robert CRAYTON, Mrs. M.B. PRICE and child, Mrs. ELLIOTT and servant, Mrs. James CAMPBELL, Mrs. J.A.C. FISHER, Mrs. BAUER and four children, Mrs. Charles REED, Mrs. E.A. HAGLEY, Mrs. HAGGERTY and child, B.J. BERRY, Hiram LEONARD, wife, child and servant; D.R. PATTEN and wife, Mrs. James MORGAN and infant, A. ROBINSON, wife and two children, H.L. LENNOX and wife, Mr. FAULKNER and wife, George C. SHREVE, wife, child and servant; Miss BEDINGTON, F. MOLIN, M. ZILLERBACH, Mrs. John C. POETZ and four children, J.A. WOEBER and five children, Mrs. HOSMER, Mrs. BURCH and children, D.M. STOCKMAN, S.R. PERRY, William N. BEVINS, Mrs. Charles BOYES and infant, M. COMPTON, Simon GREENWALD, wife and two children, A. MERCHANT, S. SACHS, H. ROBITSCHEK, N.S. BACHMAN, James QUAILLE, Mrs. James STEWART, Mrs. B.F. LOWE and child, Mrs. Ann J. SIBLEY and daughter, Miss HINCKLEY, Mrs. Jane PEARKS and child, John P. KNIGHT, Master BRODY , Mrs. A.J. FOSTER, Mrs. Susan DUNLAP and boy, Mrs. L.S. WOOSLEY and boy, Mrs. William NEIL and three children, Mrs. Angeline BARTLETT, Mrs. E. McCOMB and two children, Albert PRIEST, Henry MACKLE, Joseph F. SMITH, Miss GORE, Julius MAY, Robert S. NEWKIRK, Mrs. B. KELSER and child, Mrs. W.N. BEVINS, Mrs. William BRODY, Mrs. MITCHELL and two children, Mrs. S.N. NICHOLS, Mrs. S.L. KLLLMAN and child, Mrs. William ROSS, Mr. LAWLER and wife.

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Sacramento Daily Union

Thursday, May 7, 1863

 

PASSENGERS FOR CALIFORNIA

Our correspondent at New York has forwarded to the Union the following list of passengers, who left that city in the Northern Light for San Francisco, April 11th. They will arrive here in the Orizaba, which may soon be looked for:

C.W. COOK

F.G. SALSTONTALL

J.B. WILLIAMS and wife

H. GILDERMEESTER

L. GOTTIG

R. DORN

Mrs. PARRISH

Mrs. A. VON PFISTER and d’r

Mary A. McKENZIE

F.S. MANSFIELD

L. TAYLOR

W. STUART and wife

G.R. WILLIAMSON

U.C. STARR

B. WOLFF

O.M. JENKINS and wife

D.B. BURCH

G. LOOMIS and wife

Miss L. DEVINE

P. MYERS

J.M. SIMPSON

J.F. SIMPSON

J. LYON

Sarah GRISWOLD, sister and ch

J.D. MERRYMAN

J.L. BALL

G.A. STEELE

Mrs. GARDNER

Miss GRAHAM

S.J. BRIDGES

Miss L. BRICKETT

J. MARTIN

W.P. WHITTAKER

B.F. SWAN and wife

Mrs. FLETCHER

M.W. BRADLEY and wife

G.M. MURRAY

L.H. TALCOTT,wife and 2 ch

C.H. FISKE

Miss M.H. SPANGLER

Sarah E. SMITH

Catharine BEAUMONT

Mrs. GREENE and daughter

W. SIMMONS

H.Y. LINK

G. BRADSTREET

J. McMAHON and wife

Harriet J. WALLEY

A. FERST

C.S. COLBY

E.A. WHITE

S. LANTSBERRY

T.G. MILLMANN

R. MOORE

A.S. MOORE

J. HODGE

O.S. KELSEY

H.A. WATERHOUSE

Mrs. T. REYNOLDS and child

F.F. MILLER and wife

R.W. MILLER and wife

C. METCALFE, wife and child

E. SMITH

H. GREEN

P.P. MITCHELL

Sarah MITCHELL

J. DINDO

Mrs. BLACKWELL and child

Mrs. THOMAS and child

A. STARKEY, wife and 2 chn

J.M. STOCKMAN

C.H. OSGOOD

Mr. and Mrs. H. LITTLE

T.A. LEIGHTON

A. ADAMS

Mrs. A.D. WASS and 2 chn

Mary E. WOODS

Emily EATON

Mrs. S.M. STOCKMAN

Mrs. L.C. OSGOOD

Fanny PERKINS

Cleora KING

Eveline MOODY

Nelly GAFF

Abby F. SMITH

Mrs. J.W. WADSWORTH

P. WILSON

Mary WILSON

S.J. BRIDGE

Miss Nancy GRAHAM

J. BOUVIER and wife

F. LERMETTI and wife

N.P. DODGE and wife

T. AGNEW, wife and child

Mrs. MONTAGUE and child

T. SELDERBERG

T. HAYES

Sarah ACTON

W.M. STEELE, wife and 3 ch

G.W. PARKER

Mary A. BEARD

Mrs. E.K. LAMBERT

Mary McCOY

Hannah LUCETTI

E.P. EVANS and wife

J. STURM

Mrs. R.S. MULLARD

J. BARKER

G. WALES

B. HIGGINS and 2 daughters

J. FLOYD

Miss E. FLOYD

C. HUKE, wife and 2 childn

C. BOWRING

J.S. PRATT

L. COURTLEE

G. COURTLEE

D.A. EMPEY

R. WEEGER

S. EWARE, wife and child

R.A. RENFREW

Eliza M. RENFREW and 2 ch

J.S. BRIMSEY

A.J. DAVIS

D.J. MARR

G.W. LEMANT

A. HOBAN

Sarah BRADY

E.M. DAVIS and sister

G. METCALF

J. ELSAM

D. WELLS

S. ADELT, wife and child

J. HELLER, wife and 2 daugh

Z.P. OSBORN

A. HELLER

W. MAITLAND

W.B. SCOTT

S. McCLANAHAN

S.P. COPE

P.N. TAPPAN and wife

S. SUAYHONE

W. GOVE

D. McCRUMMONS

J. ROSE

William HALES

Miss STAFFORD

N. HOWE and wife

T. MURPHY

G. WHITE

L. ROSE

Kate HAYES

Mrs. HATCH

J. DERESMA

W. HOFFARD

Ellen MYLEN

J.W. WADSWORTH

Mrs. MANNING

D. MOOTE, wife and 2 chn

J. McWHENNIE

Messrs. MURDON

J. McMILLAN

A. COLTER

P. FISHER

R. STROHECKER

C. LEICHTAR

Ellen CORTNEY

Mrs. S.J. BROWN

Mrs. FITZGIBBON and 2 chn

 

Shooting and Lynch Law at Vallejo

VALLEJO, May 6th

Last night about eight o’clock, as a young man named SHAFLEY, in company with a man named PRESTON, was returning home, about a mile from town, a man (supposed to be Manuel VERA) fired on them from the wheat field adjoining the road, wounding SHAFLEY. VERA was promptly arrested, and to-day waived examination. He was placed under $10,000 bonds. While the bond was being made out, this evening, about sixty men, blacked and masked, armed with pistols and knives, broke into WILSON’s store, where the prisoner was, picked up the Sheriff (who had just arrived) and carried him out. They then shot the prisoner dead. The man PRESTON shot VERA, severely wounding him, some months ago, and it?s thought he intended killing him instead of SHAFLEY. SHAFLEY’s wounds are serious but not dangerous. Two balls have been extracted, and he is doing well.

 

Sacramento Daily Union

Thursday, May 7, 1863

 

I.O. of G.T. - At a regular meeting of Capitol Lodge, No. 51, I.O.G.T., held on Tuesday evening, at Graham’s Hall, D.L. TOWNSEND, D.G.W.C.T., installed the following officers for the ensuing term: Theodore REICHERT, W.C.T.; Miss Frank M. STEVENS, W.V.T.;  Samuel SIMES, W.S.; Miss MITCHEL, W.T.; Albert GALLETIN, W.F.S.; D.L. TOWNSEND, W.M.; Miss Emma FISKE, W.D.M.; Miss HOSS, W.I.G.; J. THOMPSON, W.O.G.; Mrs. D.B. STEWART, W.R.H.S.; Miss Mary FISKE, W.L.H.S.; William C. BARRETT, W, Chaplain; F.E. MITCHELL, P.W.C.T.

SOCIABILITY - Yesterday forenoon a fellow, who was partially drunk, on J street, attempted to kiss a lady who was walking on the sidewalk. She did not concur, but informed N. Greene CURTIS of the fact, giving a description of the offender. On this description, officer SHEEK arrested a man named CORRINGTON. The prisoner was taken from the station house early last evening by the officer for the purpose of being identified, but as he was not brought back again it is presumed that he was not the right man and was discharged.

GRAND LARCENY - Yesterday morning J.H. WARWICK missed his gold watch at his residence, on Third street. Having cause to suspect a Chinaman who was employed in the house, he arrested him and took him to the station house.  John denied all knowledge on the subject, and, of course, refused to give any information. On returning home and instituting a thorough search, WARWICK found the watch wrapped up and secreted under an iron pot in the kitchen. The Chinaman will be examined to-day.

ARRESTS - John DOE was arrested yesterday by special officer DAKE, for assault and battery; Jim Chinaman, by J.H. WARWICK, on a charge of grand larceny in stealing a gold watch; Joseph CARRINGTON, by officer SHEEK, for misdemeanor; and Julia DAVIS, by officer LESTER, for assault and battery on Catherine CRONEN.

A COUNTER CARD - W. MANTES publishes another card in connection with the BURKE and HOLL imbroglio, stating that he authorized the BURKE statement of the affair.

BAILED OUT - William PIERCE, who has been confined in the county jail several months for killing Frank WHITE at Daylor?s ranch, gave bail yesterday in the sum of $3,000, and was released from custody.

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Sacramento Daily Union

Monday, May 11, 1863

 

GOLD IN MENDOCINO - The Mendocino Herald says a party is engaged prospecting in the mountains between Clear Lake and Round Valley, for what is said to be an exceedingly rich deposit of gold somewhere in that region, discovered a number of years ago by some unfortunate wanderer over the mountains, who, finding a rock that bore unmistakable evidence of gold, pounded it up and extracted half a pound of gold. But he never could find the place again; and many other ardent seekers after his lost lode have shared the same ill luck from year to year.

MINING IN SOUTH SIERRA - The Sierra Democrat of May 9^th says:

The Sacramento company opened a new quartz ledge near Chips’ last week, which promises to be a big thing. Gold in considerable quantity is plainly visible to the naked eye. The French Ravine company are still pounding out their regular eighteen pounds per day, with a fair prospect ahead of a good long run at that rate. Shares are held at ten thousand dollars.

BUTTE - The Butte Record of May 9^th says:

The copper epidemic still continues in this county. A new district was formed last week on the north side of Feather river and east of the North Fork. Numerous companies are at work sinking shafts, and a short time will determine the richness of our copper mines. A specimen of ore from a ledge near Forbestown, was recently assayed and found to contain eighteen per cent of copper. New discoveries in this vicinity are reported almost daily.

We take the following interesting items from the Oroville Union May 9^th:

We learn from several citizens of Flea Valley that the bones of a dead man were found near that place last week, and recognized from papers and clothing to be the remains of J.D. HOGAN, who left Flea Valley February 18, 1863, for Dogtown, but having never reached his destination, is supposed to have perished in a snow storm the night of his departure.  Our correspondent at Inskip, whose letter arrived too late for us to give it entire, under the date of May 8^th, writes that the Oroville and Honey Lake road, via Inskip, is fully open.

On Monday last, ZENONIA, who resides about five miles from town on the Chico road, was kicked by a Spanish horse, breaking the right cheek bone and forcing a fragment of it up in front of the eye.

Jacob STIMER, one of the proprietors of the brewery, at Dogtown, was thrown from his wagon on Saturday last, and sustained a slight fracture of the skull.

There was a grand gathering of loyal men at the Court House on Thursday evening, for the purpose of forming a Union League. Seneca EWER was chosen President, and Dr. James GREEN Secretary.

A Union League was organized at Forbestown on Saturday last - L.P. SMITH President and S.W. WHIPPLE Secretary.

MINING IN SHASTA - The Courier of May 9^th has the following:

The last week has developed more facts as to the great richness of the Pittsburg mines than any time previously. A rich assay of silver has been obtained from rock taken from the original Minnesota claim, also the Baxter and Kellenger claims. The owners of the original Kellenger and Baxter claims have placed lock and key upon their tunnels to prevent the removal of valuable minerals found in theses claims.

The mining claim of HOY & KENNEDY, located near the Sacramento river, below Waugh?s Ferry, has yielded for the past week from $900 to $1,700 a day for three hands. This valuable claim is supposed to be a continuance of the Bunker Hill claim, so long noted for its richness.

A HUSBAND ON THE RAMPAGE - The Forest Hill Courier of May 9^th has the following:

The usually quiet town of Forest Hill, and neighborhood, was put into a flutter of excitement on Tuesday evening, about ten o’clock, by the report that a jealous husband had attempted to assassinate the destroyer of his peace! Edward FLETCHER and John E. CROPSEY have been part owners of the India Rubber tunnel, at the “Gardens,” for a number of years past. FLETCHER is a married man, and CROPSEY boarded in the family. About four months ago, FLETCHER and his wife separated - each occupying separate dwellings. Common report has it, that no small amount of clashing, crimination and recrimination has passed between them - and that the peace and quiet of the neighborhood has been frequently disturbed by the parties. About half past nine o?clock, on Tuesday evening, FLETCHER approached CROPSEY near his cabin, and, without speaking a word, commenced firing a pistol. One ball struck CROPSEY about an inch above the left temple, but glanced off; another ball struck the left cheek, passed through along the jaw bone and lodged in the neck; another ball struck the left breast, passing through and coming out the left shoulder blade. He is living and doing well. FLETCHER was arrested, and after an examination before Justice SCOTT was committed to jail to answer before the Grand Jury, the fourth Monday of May. The defendant intends to prove, he says, that he was justified. Both parties have been hard working, industrious miners.

Submitted by Betty Loose betty@unisette.com

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Daily Bee - Sacramento

Thursday Evening May 14, 1863 

CLUBBING A SECESSIONIST - A telegram from Jackson, Amador county, to the San Francisco Call, and dated on the 12^th, says:

“Yesterday, two men went to the Mountain Springs House, between this place and Ione City. One of them commenced hurrahing for Jeff DAVIS, when Mr. FARMER, proprietor of the house, picked up a club and went after him. The man, drawing a knife, made several attempts to cut FARMER. Both the men have been arrested. 

 

Sacramento Daily Union

Thursday, May 14, 1863

 

HOMICIDE IN PLACER - A man named LINDSAY killed a person whose name we have

not heard, at Stewart?s Flat, in Placer county, April 12^th, the day of the election on the Pacific Railroad question. It is stated, says the Bee, that LINDSAY was Judge of the Election, and that the man with whom he had the difficulty came to the polls with an Irishman, whose vote he wished to have recorded. LINDSAY challenged the vote, and at this the other person got angry and commenced the assault. He got LINDSAY’s head down under the table.  LINDSAY managed to strike him over the head with his pistol. His opponent continued his attack, and then LINDSAY, managing to raise himself a little, fired his weapon, the ball passing through the left breast of his adversary, killing him instantly. LINDSAY was at once arrested, but it would seem that he was justified in what he did. We are told that LINDSAY has relatives residing in this city.

NEW STAGE ROUTE OVER THE MOUNTAINS - MONAHAN & WHIPPLE are about starting the stage line and saddle train from Sonora (California) to Aurora. They will run their stages to the Long Barn or Strawberry Valley, and then  carry passengers on horseback over the summit, where they will take the stages again for Aurora. The whole distance will be about one hundred and twenty miles, and only thirty miles will be ridden in the saddle.

NEARLY A FATAL ACCIDENT - A daughter of Mrs. BURNETT, at Copperopolis, fell into a well thirty feet deep, April 11^th, and was only saved from drowning by the aid of Samuel PIKE, who descended into the well on some hose and sustained the girl in the water (twelve feet deep), until they were both drawn out by persons about. The child was twelve years of age, and sustained no injury from accident.

FATAL ATTACK BY INDIANS - The Dalles Journal of May 4^th says: :”A company of prospectors, five in number, who left Canon City a week ago yesterday, were attacked in camp the next morning, within about fifteen miles of the south fork of John Day river, by a party of Indians. They were all asleep when the attack was made. Three of them succeeded in making their escape in different directions, in the dark, all more or less wounded by shot and arrows. The Indians fired in among them as they were sleeping in a tent, according to the statements of the three who escaped. The other two are supposed to have been killed by the Indians. The names and residences of the men who escaped were RUTHERFORD and MARCELLUS of California, and Vincent RAND of Portland, Oregon. The men who are supposed to be killed are Hiram TALCOTT of California, and William GALLAGHER of Salem, Oregon. A party of some nineteen or twenty men at Canon City volunteered their services as soon as the news of the affair reached there, and immediately started in pursuit of the Indians. The body of  F. GALLAGHER, late of Portland, was found a short distance from Cherry Creek last Wednesday. The body presented every appearance of a most atrocious murder having been committed. He had been shot through the head with a pistol ball. The body had been robbed of everything but a portion of his clothing. The pockets of the pants were turned inside out. Some of the clothing had been buried. The murder is believed to have been committed by one BERRYWAY, with whom GALLAGHER had been in company on his way from Canon City to this place.

PASSENGERS FOR THE EAST - The following named passengers sailed in the Orizaba, May 13^th, for Panama, bound for the East:

B. BERNARD, Joseph REED, Bishop Hill’s servant, James S. PATTERSON, Wm. C. LEACHMAN, Wm. DENSON, J.T. BARKER, James M. CRAWFORD and wife, B. PHELPS, Mrs. E. A. THEILER, H.W. APPLEGATE, Charles JENKINS, nurse and two infants;Dr. A.J. THEBIDO, Joseph LEWIS, sister and child; Spencer PORTER, Rev. Bishop HILL, Mrs. HOYT and daughter, A.B. MORRELL, Mrs. Captain MOORE, nurse and child; Captain MOORE, John LEEKIE, Herman FRIEDLANDER, Louis LEVINSON and boy, George FAULKNER, Robert OWEN, Charles BISHOP and wife, E.L. HENSON, Richard LEIVAGE, Miss M.L. HINCKLEY, Joseph REINOR.

ARRESTS - G.W. ROSS and Charles P. DUANE were arrested in San Francisco lately for tearing down a fence they claim as their property, near Mission Dolores. They gave bail in one hundred dollars each to answer the charge.

DEATH OF THE MAYOR OF HOBOKEN - John R. JOHNSON, Mayor of Hoboken, died at his residence in that city on the morning of April 18^th.

STRIKE AT GOLD HILL (N.T.) - The Virginia Union of May 12^th says:

Gold Hill is determined not to be excelled by Virginia in strikes at least. Yesterday morning, as some workmen in that place were engaged in excavating in the rear of the Golden Eagle Hotel, they struck a well defined quartz ledge. A.F. WOODSIDE, A.W. McINTYRE, J.H. WOODSIDE, W.H. WHITE and H.McGINN, styling themselves the Woodside Company, immediately located a claim of twelve hundred feet. The ledge was christened the McIntyre Ledge. A comfortable number of extensions have been located, both north and south.

Submitted by Betty Loose betty@unisette.com

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Sacramento Daily Union

Monday, May 18, 1863

 

BY TELEGRAPH TO THE UNION

Will of Major Meeker - Suit for Trespass and Damages

SAN FRANCISCO, May 17^th

The following New York dispatch was received yesterday: “Did Major MEEKER leave in San Francisco a will of later date than that found among his papers in New York?” BALDWIN telegraphed for further information, but has received no reply as yet.

The First South Extension Francis Silver Company sues Robert STEWARD and others for trespass and $7,000, the value of seven tons silver ore taken from a mine in Slate Range, San Bernardino county.

PASSENGERS FOR CALIFORNIA - Our correspondent at New York has forwarded by the Overland Mail the following list of passengers, who left that city April 21^st in the Ocean Queen for Aspinwall. They will arrive in San Francisco by the next steamer from Panama, which is expected soon:

Mrs. CULVER and daughter

T. KELLOGG

Mary F. KELLOGG

H. DUNCAN

A.A. CURTIS and 2 d’trs

Mrs. CURTIS

Miss TORRENT

Miss A. BUNNER

Miss S. BAILEY

A.M. STARR and wife

A.J. AGATE

F.P. ALBELA

W. COBB

D. BENNETT and wife

Mrs. WHITING and daughter

Mrs. BURROWS

Mrs. E. BROWN

Mrs. And Miss TRAUTMAN

Mrs. R.H. WALLER

H. SCHMITT

Julia SHOURDS

Emma FABER

Mary SCHOURDS

F.A. SHOURDS and wife

P.B. LEWIS

Mrs. MEEKER and 2 d’trs

R. COLES

Miss GOSSEN

Mrs. A.J. LANE

W.L. HOPKINS

R. HOPKINS

Mrs. E.A. HOPKINS

W.B. BRICKELL, wife and ch

H. COLBY and wife

J. HAINES

H.W. CHIPMAN

E.E. SHEAR

P.R. YOUNG and wife

W.P. COOK

J. COOK

J.D. WAUGH, wife and 3 ch’n

S.D. MINER

Rebecca GAVER

J.A. PELLIGREW

J. MARINER

J.H. PATTERSON & sister

Capt. A.W. WILKINS, wife and sister

J.P. GOODWIN

W.R.S. TAYLOR and mother

W.R. STREET

J.M. STREET

Mrs. M.C. BUTLER

Alice BROWN

Mrs. G.W. MORGAN and ch’d

Mrs. THURSTON

Mrs. NAY and boy

Mrs. THURSTON and boy

G. FALKENSTEIN, wife and 4 ch

N. VANDERLISS, wife and ch’d

Miss MILLER

J.H. JOLLY, wife and child

J.B. TOLLEY, wife and child

Lydia JENKINS

Julius ADLER

Mary ROBERTSON & 4 child’n

E. MITCHELL

D.W. WILLIAMS

J. McCOLLUM

G.S. FRIENDLY

F.K. KINGSTON

L.K. GRIFFIN, wife & 2 chl’n

A. MINER

M. O’FLAHERTY

J.L. HEAD

G.W. ROGERS

G. TRETZ

C.A. AYER and wife

J.W. BRIGGS

P. BRIGGS

J.C. HART

J.H. DAVIS

H. ANDREWS

Jennie CHASE

Mrs. J.A. MEYERS

J.P.L. BOIS

Miss McCORMICK

Miss L. McCORMICK

A.B. CLARK