Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1849-12-19
THINGS IN CALIFORNIA.

Francisco, Nov.i, says:
On my way 10 call upon Col. Fremont whom
found located with his family in the Happy Val
ley, (half mile from town. / saw a company of
Chinese carpenters pu,,iAg up the frame of Can
ton-made house. In Pacific street another Celcs-
tial restaurant has been opened, aud every vessel
from the Chinese ports brings fresh importation.
An Olympic circus, ON very handsome scale is in
deTs amuse the public nightly. '-Delnonico's" is
the fashionable eating house, where you &c. boiled
eggs at 75 cents each. and dinner al ST. Soto IS,
according to your appetite.
A little muslin shed rejoices i'm the tirie Cr "Irv-
ing House." number Of fine billiard rooms and
bowling alleys have been opened, and all other de-
vices Tor spending money brought into successful
operation. The gamblers complain longer Of
dull prospects. There hundreds of monies. rou-
lette, and faro tables, which crowded nightly
until late hour, and where the most inveterate ex-
cesses OF gaming may be witnessed. The rents of
houses have increased rather than fallen, since
last wrote. might give hundreds of instances but
1t would bo only repetition of hundred others al
ready mentioned. Money brings Ia per cent month
ly On Loan Mr. Marye, of Baltimore, who came
out in the Panama, has sold steam engine which
cast him $1,000 for 81 600 Some drawing Paper,
which cos, about ST. in New York, brought $l61
here. Find little change in the prices Of provisions
and merchandise, though the paid for labor has
diminished. Town lots continually on the rise.
fifty lots in the Happy Valley. bring S.. 800.
have met with number Of my fellow passengers
here, nearly all OF whom have done well some of
them having already reuiizcd $40 900 and $50 900.
y estimate the present population of San Fran
cisco at $4,000 A year aye it about five hun
dred. The increase since that time has hecn made
IN the face of the greatest disadvantages under which
a city ever labored-an uncultvatcd country, an
ungenial climate, eNorbaat rates III labor, want of
building materials imperfect civil organization
lacking every thing, in Short but gold dust and en-
terprzo. The same expense the Atlantic coast
would have established city Of hundred thou
sand inhabitants. the price oflumber is still $500
To $l0O per M. Five Saw Mills at Santa Cruz
belonging to the owner, rem; for $50 each
dntit'. All the mills of Oregon kept going,
lumber even there bringing 800 per NJ. There
is no end To the springs of labor and traffic which
this vast emigration California has set in MOTION
not only on The Pacific coast, but throughout all
Polynesia and Australia
WHOLESALE AIURpnR.-The Marietta g. }
| Republican gives an account of most brutal and
! revolving murder that was perpeiraed in Enoch
township Monroe county, Ohio, ON Saturday night,
Nov, 2lth, by man named Reuben Juhhston.-
1 i he Republican says:
"We learn that hy the name Of Reuben
Johnston, Of Encch township, Monroe county Ohio,
attempted 10 kill his wife last Saturday night.
itis daughter ran 10 rescue her mother. when the
inhnman wretch stabbed the daughter Two others
(ElIza Boonts and Adam Marshali9 weRt i'm ta put
S'op w tiiiS ureaultl work, nut johnson stabbed
them Doth and, as is supposed, left them with The
impression that he had killed the four. On Mon
day, MIR. Benjamin S. Stow deputy constable came
To THIS place from the of This unnatural TRACE
dy, and sent telegraph dispatches several points
describing johnston. and giving some of The partc-
niars connected with the horrld affair When Stow
lett F.noch township, the four unfortunate ndvlJ-
ais were alive, but the probability was that Miss
johnston and MIR. Marshall could not recover No
reason Is assigned ioI Johnston coarse, that
learn.
'Since writing the above, we have been favored
with the following telegraphic despatch:
! BEAksvILLE, MONROE CO.. O.. 2
November 81, lS49.
"Reuben Johnston the man who committed mu--
der IN This county was brought 10 Jail at Woodeld
last night. He WAS arrested near his own residence
Adam h'd'SIii the sTabbed, Is dead aii the
women are yet living"
| Runaway M,TCu-iTe met will. n houpl,
on Saturday last, on their way to Maryland 10 get
the aid ut Minister of that State To relieve them
OF their existing emergency. They were from the
County of Rockbrldge. An obstinate "Pa - not
willing to permit them to be made one, they re-
solved TO take the matter in their own hands. The
groom gave us detail Of his trials on teu way
AT O'Clock at night he conveyed the lair one from
her father domicil, in Buggy which broke down
a tew miles fran their starring point. She was
then placed behind him horse i'm which way
| MY W cidHDlOD, ~ miles where tley
took the Stage for Wnches,er-thence the Rail
| TO Frederick city. Tie intended groom seemed
very soIlcitOus for the speed of the Engne-but we
quoted his fears by assuring him he was too far in
advance of the "Od Gentleman" and Offering our
aid IN case of an exigency. He exhibited great
care and respect for his intended and we doubt not
will prove himself worthy of her.
BY the way, our Laws are defective upon the
license subject. We drive from our State those
whe are determined 10 marry, and with them a
large amount ofrevenue during the year. Ctarlcs-
torn Free Press, Dec. Is.
The MEXICAN BOUNDARY LINg.-The ''ini-
tlal point Of boundary between the United States
and the Mexican Republic was fixed and acknowl-
edged on Wednesday, the lOih Of October There
were present 40 persons, Including two Ameri-
cah ladies' ard officers from the garrison of San Di-
ego. 1t falls about seventeen mixes To the southward
OF San Diego. The joint commission, composed 'oi
1 the two commissioners and two Surveyors has SIGN
ed an inscription, which was written and hermeii-
( cally sealed in glass bottle. This was buried be-
low post placed in the centre of circle 80 feet
in diameter, marked ont for a monument 10 be cree
| ted hcieafter.-.Nm. Mt.
NOTABLE DEArm.-The Northern papers tell us
! that The Hon. jeffrey Chipnan died at Kalamazoo.
Michigan, the 18Th inst, at the age Of 60 years
! This was the magistrate before whom was arrdign-
ed the famous Morgan, about whom so much cx-
element raised agans: The order of Masons -
Before Justice Chapman. Morgan was arraipned on
charge of larceny, and c0rntniticd 10 Ontario Jail
from whence he was carried off. Justice Chapman
the first witness called in all the trials relating
to Morgan.
HUNGARIANs ARRIvEp.--In the Europa, at Bos
ton, two distinguished Hungarian officers. Col
j. Pragay and Mai. Furnet. The former was CoI