The Express.
London, England, 1852-09-13 00:00:00

CALI FORN 1 A.

The steamship Prometheus, Capt. Churchill, from
San Juan del Norte. August 21st, arrived at New
Nark on the 30th ult. She anchored at quarantine,
Staten Island, at midnight on Sunday, eight daya
amt 1; hours from San Juan. The l'remethena
brought 200 passengirs. who left San Francisco.on
the tllst of July. t Attie hours after the mail steamer,
in the sti..nistap I.nlependence, which vessel arrived
at San Juan del Sud at 3 p.m., Aug. 11. The cross-
ing the Isthmus is reported good, and no sickness
prevailtsl on the route. 4,000,000 dollars in gold
dust nas announced to have arrived and coming.
The netts of the, nomination of Scott and Graham
had reached Sul Francisco, and was received with
much enthusiasm by the whigs of that city. On July
306, a role 95 feet high was raised in Lent of
National Hall, the head•quartegs of the whigs in
San Francisco, and at six o'clock a few whigs deter-
mined that the Scott flag should not he run up until
there was a crowd on hand to salute it with cheers.
The resolutio,i took, the news spread, and at eight
o'clock two or three thousand whigs were assembled
in front of the Hall. A flag, 40 feet long, was ele-
vated amid the most enthusiastic demonstrations. A
band of music then played several airs, after which a
procession reaching away round the Plaza, walked
through the principal streets, making the air mug
with their shouts for Scott and Graham.

The CiCareras Chronicle says :
We !earn that new diggings have been discovered in the
neighbourhood of Clinton, varying in depth tr,ren 6to 20
feet. They are represented as being remarkably rich, and
to have cium d a large addition to the population of that
melon within a short time. Three men took out of their
claim in one day 3;10 dollars.
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Caved.) diggings have been discovered within
few aays at San Autonio, much resembling those
about ilekelumne-hilL They are said to be remark-
ably rich, all those who have " got down" havirg
act with excellent success. The earth through
which the miners are obliged to dig is of a whitum
grey colour, and extremely hard. A layer of lava,
'ming in thieksess lam one to eight feet, is also
met with.

Short's Bar, on the Mokelumoc, is already full of
miners, who are making high wages, while some are
realising handsome sums by occasionally finding a
prize. A printer named imoods was fortunate
enough to get oat some 2,000 dollars in ten days. A
company of Frenchmen on this bar are doing re-
markably well, es they always do, when they turn
their attention to mining. It has frequently been re-
marked that, as abody, the most fortunate miners in
the country are the French.
A number of miners hare discovered a eery rich
quarts rein near Clinton, in which, although they
have worked it but little, shares are worth nearly a
thensand dollars each. They hays sent Ulmer for
Ala
mashimery, wed la the meantime bury the risk ore
theibitakelbens lede.
daereassitb MIMI says:
We were slew wseim by Mr. Greene L'Amseesse,
etOdwie, • wambei mss
id part gold lowa by ea
talks W tb• 011•4 wairiof atrantakat &bast 40 win west
of Odom. The tempi Mr. L'Ammissas's pensedis will
weigh tam 2 dab. be 10 Mk task a d mennMe i sr-
'manta lb, geld fives the Trinity swi,sMs• kit
prey we bear, left Gina akw dm=
eta seavandsk bat imemsdklaly,
'.".47spsilisessilasailiamabledliselllg Ism Illisinahms.
Mug, hewer, ._a.,4 to onset alma an ewes sikas,
wins& they teemed is. Oa B••day, madam petty, atm.
kaki am. 30. it Calms fully amid and 44.1pped, Ite
the pryer et mostiks • tbanesti impistatis• et We stwly-
aiwatered itinglaps.
A latter in dm liewlibibled July 21st,
lays that the minim smannity elite Middle Ynba
were seattied the melees sight by the news that a
Mr. James B. Yates bed shot a Meow on the
Little Yuba a few Ware bdore. Mr. Iless very
rptly metered a peen of mimeo sad repaired to
. Yates% lost. lad pew finned Yates
at home, armed with a ..,.Isar ad dosble-harrel
shot gun. Re warn immedisady asisated, sentenced
to receive titerviUss ea the lame beak and
to leave the In
the meanttase7Ewshma lealt= kw. a
sense that
as sons as blood shoal& ha dews, the
should erase. Mar a asst Ems bail WV
the blood was nee triskisg dews his leek
upon the was loosesedeea Ids bade, ad be
was to have.

A sun named Tanner, who was sentenced to be
hung at Marysville for stealing, was executed at noon
on the 24th. A large number of witnessed
the awful proceedings. A of citizens had
been summoned by the sheriff, and escorted the
carriage to the smAld. The crowd was very orderly.
Not a single demonstration of disorder occurred.
Six hundred Chinamen arrived at Ban Francisco
in the Baron Ren'ew from Hong Hong, and 240
also arrived in the Ohio, on the 22nd.
Tho San Francisco Whim of the 31st, gives an see
count of a riot at Contra Costa, opposite San Fran-
cisco, in which Deputy Sheriff Johnson, of that city,
was shot. It seems that somo months since lion.
T. B. Van Buren leased • certain piece of property
to • tenant at Contra Cuts, who afterwards under-
let the premises to • person named Hardy. Upon
the expiration of the term for which the lean was
made, the. party in occupancy refused to deliver up
the premiss, upon the ground of being a pre-
emption claimant. Mr. Van Baru thereupon pro-
cured an order from some one of the courts to be
.put
in possession, but injunction was taken out against
it. This was afterwards dissolved, and on the 30th
of Jaly, Sheriff Inhuman made an attempt to put Mr.
Van Buren in possession, when he was shot
and mortally wounded. When the ferry-boat
reached Oakland on the 30th, at six oclock,
there was great excitement existing among the
people. Mr. Johnson wee shot through the stomach
as he was entering the door, after having broken it
down. Hardy attempted to escape, but was arrested
with two other men, so to to have been con-
nected with him. Mr. Johnson expired soon after,
and when the boat left a coroner's jury had been
summoned to hold an inquest upon his remains.
The steamer was despatched back to San Francisco,
to procure assistance to enforce the law. The
excitement was very great, and there was consider-
able talk of lynching.
.
The San Diego Herald, July 22, states that astir.
Preparations are on foot to proclaim the indepen-
dence of the Peninsula Territory, Lower California,
and hoist tho " Boar Fag." Don Manuel Castro, a
native of Monterey, and late an officer in the Mexican
army, it is said, has been silently engaged of late in
enlisting men in San Diego and the county of Loa
Angelus to proceed to Lower California and proclaim
the indept ndence of that territory. His of
are daily making their we, over the line in small
parties, intending to unite at some given point and
march upon Santo Thomas and La Par. Negrete,
the head of the Mexican authorities in that country,
is represented u a timid man, incapable of resisting
a wellorgrinized effort. His family have taken
ref u.e in San Diego from the impending storm.
Canto is of the opinion that the Mexican troops in