The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-26 00:00:00

AMEEIC NEWb•

LIVERPOOL, AUG. 25.
st,_ty the royal mail steam ship Niagara, Captain
"net Which arrived shortly before two o'clock yes.
terde
we have advises from New York direct to
13th Histaut. She brings 74.0001. in specie on
glight,

b •-.lllupg the, American passengers are Sir H. L.
rvfer,
.01i temporary leave of absence from his
ik%e, In Minister to the United States, and Mr. E.
the ',feel-poi and New York- United States' mail
Stitt
, 'l4 Arctic, Luce commander, with. mails of
iitiv 30, arrived out at New York at 7 A.M. on the
% instant.
der b" ruYal mail steam-ship Africa, Ryrie commare•
a's'h Liverpool mails of the 2.1 instant, arrived
'l\lo New York on the 12 h instant at 6 P.M.
Nhe ew York and Havre United Sostss' mail
tsitT:‘,4liP Humboldt, Lines commander, arrived
too "" New York on the 12th, at 9, P.M., after a run
eta Southampton in thirteen days. It is stated by
ez2Nl'iv York journals that she has not met the
peel tattoo of her owners ; that her machinery is ca-
of driving her at any speed, but that when light Ilion, g
Ittit veiy crank, and arrived at the termination of her
i 1001°Yage careening over on one side, although
to of iron 'ballast had been put on board at
rte.
The New York and Bremen United States' mail
rwtll-ship Washington, Floyd commander, left New
fur Southampton and Bremen on the 12th
10t (after three days' detention) with 93 passengers,
p The Liverpool
in specie, and the usual mails.
reamer
Liverpool and New York United States' mail
o,tt,, Pacific, Nye, was announced to leave New
for Liverpool, on the 16th inst., having com-
a the repairs to her machinery.
Itia,,,Pacific United States' mail steam-ship Pacific,
"wlOOO dolls. gold dust on freight, 425 passen-
thjnntf San Francisco mails of the 14th of July, ar-
Ni' oe the 29th ult., and landed her freight at San
t! del Bud. Her passengers took the Nicaragua
41 over the Isthmus, traversing the first 15 miles
I_(r:4dl Crossing -Lake Nicaragua in the steam-ship
thetc!rs and steaming down the river to San Juan.
tt S !Iran stearr-whip Sir H. 'Bulwer. On arriving
an Juan, 32 hours only having been occupied in
trpit.lllAg the Isthmus, they embarked on board the
,States steam-ship Prometheus, on the morn-
kii.vitoe 4th inst., and at 5 A.M. on the 13th _inst.
tiasj,;at New York, after a passage from San Fran-
bes4 about 29 days. Hitherto this route has not
t5td,,,,Q441 and the result of the experiment was re-
Ne,,',,.fte most favourable. The Prometheus took to
"k on freight, 578,579 dolls. gold dust, and
Passengers,
I'o ,4 itil United States' mail steam-ship Georgia,
Vl', With Chagres mails of the 27th ult., and
Vl',
of the 2d inst., arrived at New York on
lth
Tit net.
kewev."Royal mail screw steam-ship Merlin left
Noit.4;ork, on the 10'h, for Bermuda and St.
144 a a with dolls. 40,850 specie, and twenty-one
0 tißers.
ittentltt: domestic accounts are unimportant. Popular
was chiefly directed to the position of Cuba
Lopappear to attach to the entire statement of
<4l 'z n departure from New Orleans with two
toot!eh and a large force of men ; and we find also,
the 143' to the reports by the D-mocratic press, that
tketril. e*),,t,ings at New Orleans were utterly insignifi-
Nel'he United States' Cabinet bad, however,
,teem war steamers to the coast. Late accounts
'esiler"Luvannah, announcing the shooting of the
tisit4.4 of the pronunciumento, had calmed down
that it,rtlent- Political accounts mention rumours
l'ehir. Clay was about to retire from Congress.
faith Fillinore had vi.ited Virginia, and met
4toeti% Warta reception. .From the south-western
firl44ll serious accounts of Indian depredations con-
tew be received. Efforts were being made near
44,14k.0rk to recover the wreck of the British frigate
PriP 'which was sunk seventy years ago.
too, tit San Francisco, California, we have advises
ltitt4e 14th tilt. From the here York Herald we ex-
t the f .•
41,1, owing :
lkort te. steamer Pacific, ehich made the remarkably
t. 11) of fifty sailing 'data from New York to This
if ''s g-
nabout leavinagain for Penama, under comumed
tli),Z4PtSin Bailey, having been in port only twelse
To-reorrow the mail steamer Northerner 81. d
kti„2!Sarah B.ndsleave for the same destination. The
goes Tea freighted again with the most start-
he ants of the state of affairs in California.
,%,,:auilsority of the Courts has been disregarded,
(Ittit,`,,eetitora of the law set at defiance, and the Vtgi-
11)9,,‘;°ttitnittee of San Francisco, composed of some
or 900 respectable citizens, have accomplished more
Isehi,_4l.the detection of crime than could have been an-
ke, 711 ed by the police in a lifetime. My last gave an
4,tititiut of the hanging at midnight of a man named
solLtini by the Vigilance Committee, for stealing 200
414,,.' A similar scene was witnessed on the 12th in.t.
WC' named Jim Stewart, a Sidney convict, the leader
g of desperadoes, was arrested for robbing a
4ftiel and notwithstanding the officers of the law at-
f,scfl to get possession of him, he was tried, convicted
titlttenoed to be banged on the same day. The
hell
Lttiap,„, Was sounded, and the populace rushed by
Llfai to the building of the Committee. At the
ii"tosol,Pointed for the execution Stewart was
vt out strongly pinioned, and guarded by
1,16 t ft) members of the Committee, walking
lo 50
"'freest, each armed with a revolver, taken
1'44; of the public wharfs, followed by thousands, a rope
,IfSee.ett,_ 'to a crane erected for hoisting goods, and
!tilh? ot,tween heaven and earth in full view of the as-
gfaffett. multitude. So solemn was the scene that each
ht
411,4e1-that immense throng was involuntarily unco-
0. No attempt was made to rescue him, nor was
.-41, other feeling but, that of entire concurrence.
ctt,;kneution took place at two o'clock in the afternoon.
kit;,:14.10 paying the fo.rfeit. of his crime, Stewart
ik mil confession of his crimes. The details esta-
',!ki .""e fact that he was the leader of the moat despe-
,N, sphan,g of villains that has ever preyed upon a
:teN"lift.Y. San Francisco is not the only point
‘?451-13,8ntomary justice is meted out ; Sonora is
~l)tompt. A man named David Hill, alias
,110,4,1, was arrested for stealing a horse, tried, and,
'lfe‘ign subsequently rescued by Sheriff Works, was
iliftre taken from him by the populace, after
te,:troggle, and hung to a tree in the main street of
ti0„."17. • Bat the tragedy which has excited most at•
We ' s
itt) nodympat y h was the hanging of a Mexican
named Josepha, at Downleville, on the Yuba,
i le
mtss,PsPulace. Having had some • difficulty' with a
i4kite:ahe slabbed him to the -art with a butcher's
thfi
The people immediately assembled, took her into
il5, 1- 11*t°dY, gave here fair trial, and, upon a convic-
tt,,, 'tsueed tier to be hung in two hours. A gallows
Ire tlt'eted On ridge crossing the river,hhouseurse lower
it4l4, the town, and at the appointed an ins-
,Nte,- crnwd ssembled, and. after bidding adios and
"g hands with those immediately around her,
141, If, Mne
odd the scuff ,Id, adjusted the ripe rearsher-
Ne,kAng` .g luxuriant heed of hair from.
Itts7:4 it, 80 as to permit it to flow free and in a
tike cords supporting the scaffold were cut,
hnh she '~hue;{ suspend-" 4 between heaven and
, Indian trou *les are not yet end. d. On the Kis-
;ll4 k;; the Indtins are in open war with the whiter,
;k murdering and robbing whenever an opportunity
L'Illtlii„„ The Indiaas have sent off all toe squaws 'and
`L fact fullo•itive of their design to commence
tt
h°' War, Basiness has been a little more active
Chltits'e,Satling of the last steamer ; but the immense
%Pa Yof goods forced upon the market at auction
A (.I'l,o* very IU
stetnl Francisco journal, .in its summary for the
t
N't Mormons are making a deoid"d movement
ill es alkaline a direct communication from the
A 1 aka to trio -Pacific. A large party has re-
ua
arrived from Salt Lake through the
.Cajon
rtlot sixty -miles from Los Angeles, with an
determitlittion to settle in that section. They
Biotalaia to be negotiating for the purchase t
oe very
belonging to Senor Antonio Long. T
4.4otbehee from the mine; continues to be extremely
4;14-44„ i,ng, and a general spirit of contentment seers
"lie "It among the miners. The effects of the ate
slot
hheriAsi • ourare yet perceptible, but the energy and
islet elee of citizens appear to be unabated. The
I,lelo,,lnstiet although not entirely rebuilt, is pretty
ttisk "'„ "lidded with tenements of all descriptions, and
4ter"nd stone buildings of the most subsaantiel
4'l'in process of erection in all parts."
Int!' we'riolrresponderit of one of the New York jour-
Les
448 La;
fetly 'nee continue productive, though it has been
Q 1,4 tkalarked by a gentleman high in the confidence
thatittl'il3Lcoent, who has recently returned from a trip
the mines, that the amount of money spent and
Pnocled during the next three years in quartz-
its'viettrlnery and experiments of various kinds, in-
-4:4 opt ;_64'Y expenditures, will exceed the profits of
.4ner therefrom in the subsequent three years of
Asetiord toil. The subject is beginning to engage the
A N many of our citizens."
" Trst"ada journal says—
(\torah; estimate the immense wealth which must, ac-
it.aest"&tO all indications, exist in the Gold Tunnel
antes Can scarcely realise the result which our
Cllth of us. We give them as follow:—Surface
e ee. •
- las 150 feet; depth to which the same can
tirssk, before reaching the water level of Deer-
net; 'so feet; average thickness of the vein rock, 2i
la auto),
.ellOO,l rof cubic feet, according to the above di-
t`yesitg4l, 101,500; weight of a cuote foot, 1001 b.;
%fain Yield per lb.. 25c.; consequent value of gold
ed lethe 101 500 feet in the vein,2,537.500 dolls.!"
kV--fk%zofn
o flowing
is an extract from a letter dated
17 June 27 :
catuere Is,
tsg at the Dresent time, a great excitement con-
lights sull;t" quartz dieeings, and some are taking out
item 81 but the majority are barely main.; a living.
i? 5,000 e hole at Carson's Flat (70 miles from here)
It Promiseswere taken in some two or three months, and
lAitAl to continue equally rich, if not richer.
pana. a considerable datni.er on the spirits of al
lieichis
oft go down from 40 to 80 feet and get nothing,
left ..,,_eeti the case. A comoany of six had been
th,,,bl:_r,: Weeks into a quartz mountain when I
or last Monday. They had g.d. down some 14
if iv
Riven iird httif f,iid nothing so far. One of them
theyhui UP' lam ate:painted with the m all, so that
enrictomall WhiNn .g"t an Itemacquainted with- here in the city