The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1849-02-23

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/ cred and collected. \ party If six persons
/ had discovered md obialued aGou, sou, 900,
mostly OF pure gold, IN two days.
( The accounts previously received resptc-
/ Ting the terrible state of society which was
existing, axe confirmed. The state of affairs
grows worse aud worse. Murder, and rob.
/ beiies are Of daily occurrence. There had
/ been fifteen murders committed within
weeks. The perpetrators Of robbcrits and
murders were generally cmicrauts and sol
dIcr> who deserted from the l. :.
Com. Jones says that To afford an effect
ual guard 10 vessels sailing from California
with goodwill require the whole American
Navy.
The 81. Mary arrived in Is days from
Norfolk.
Iivcrmorc ut the American Navy reach
Ell Washington on the 18th; bringing des-
patches from the Pacific command. lie
states that there are 900 persons. including
Gen. smith, waiting at Panama for pnssas"
10 California.
LATER.
The despatch Of Commodore Jones an
pears in the New York papers Of the 10Th
He advises the sales OF the gold regions, as
not only the best, but the only practicable
disposition to lie made OF them IN the present
dlsorsamiLrd state OF society there.
10 OF the ID murders he mentions, were
an entire household.
\ respectable TauchcIo has lad lis wife,
rhlldrcn aud servants murdered. \ man
named Reed had been successful in his die
G!nGS during the SUMMER aud wa> returning
TO his home near Santa Barbara with large
amount uf gold. HIS house was surprised
by an armed band, and his family as above
stated were barLarou>ly murdered, aud his
house rilcd Of his golden treasure. The
perpetrators OF this crime are still at large.
Orthe other cases, are highway rob
henes committed on persons rtturuu. home
with gold from the mines.
EmI-rautS from the United States, dis
banded volunteers, and runaway sailors aud
deSertcrS from the army and navy, are be-
lleved tobeth the perpetrators. The muiuies
attended with murder alluded to ia preSi-
Gus despatch, were confirmed. Commodore
Jones has issued a circular ordering close
watch ul all vessels GA the coast whose
movements were suspected. He says re-
cent arrival from Cailao rpcrt> that the Adj
cline, upon which there had been mutny.
had been into that port and the mutuecrs,
5 in number, promptly executed.
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