Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1849-08-03

was held by the people of the Pueblo San
Jose, on the Sd June, a, which Gen. Riley's
proclamation was approved.
LIFE IN Ell DoRADo.-A correspondent of
the New York Express, writing from San
Francisco, under date of June Is, says:
While am about it, may as well give you
a few extracts from the files of the Placer
Times and the Californian, which have be-
fore me. Thew will give you pretty correct
glimpse of Life in El Dorado.
This is dated at the =" Mockelumne" Dig
glngs, referred to above:
Here some forty persons are hard at work
washing out gold-some with machines and
some with tin pans: O1e man has hole sunk
"A feet below the bank. and although obliged
TO bail the water out of it every morning, he
makes from five ounces to pound every day.
! Those at work there are mostly young men
who came out in the volunteer regiment
They are handwriting fellows and deserve
all they can make. The current in the river
is very strong"
Here is an interesting bulletin from the
So Stanislaus Diggings." They don't get rich
very fast at Stanislaus, hard as they work:
''They have been hard at work the past
week, met with only tolerable success, ounce
per diem, though some have digged from three
10 Jour ounces. However, they are in the
minority, the greater number finding the high
stage of the water battles all their toll and
skill Large stories are told of the Mormons
and Sullivan's diggings above, but on invest-
cation find that although some have got out
pound and more, that the proportions of the
fortunes is about the same throughout the
mines"
Monday, 9TH May have earned to-day
only S12, and the prospect of the aOorktes are
rather dishearening. Three Americans, how
ever. below Jamestown, took out one piece Of
gold worth $278!! The news few like wild
fire. Twelve California carts, with four yoke
of oxen each, past this valley last eve, and il
was scene of rural beauty, l have seldom
seen surpassed" .. ..-...,..
MASSACRE OF INDIANS The Placer Times
of the 5th ult., contains the following accoun
Of recent massacre of Indians:
The murders recently committed by the In
dams on the American River have, as we eX
pressed it in our opinion, so thoroughly arous
, ed the miners of that stream and vicinity, tina
D nothing short of an unconditional slaughter o
$ the Sacramento Valley Indians would seem II
s appease the thirst for vengeance; terribly ha
D their revenge been visited upon that miserable
people within the week past.
a The Alcade of this district received, Of
Tuesday last, letter from VIM baylor, own
i er of a rancho distant 20 miles from this place
J, and situated on the Consumme river, announ
o cling the arrival of a large party of arme
Americans on his grounds, and who had she
= down three of his Indians while employed i
S digging a grave. On Wednesday following
II it transpired that an organized company. form
j. ed al the American Fork, traced party c
e Indians from the river until within about tie
/. miles of Daylor's rancho, when, coming upo
;, them suddenly, every man was instantly she
n down, and the women and children taken int
5, captivity These Indians, it appears from tn
=, statements made by baylor, corroborated b
is others, composed in part the mining troop en-
k Dyed by him, on the Middle Fork, and VIII
a had clearing of the excitement caused by tn
murders on that stream,) abandoned the wor
j. to seek protection in their own village, und
is the immediate control of their employer, W
ia cannot state with accuracy the number slai
10 although it is believed to be not less tia
lie twenty. On Thursday the district Alcalt
visited the scene Of blood, and was shown It
n bodies of eleven Indians in one grave. tt
D, Indians report twenty three missing of the
Indian men in all. What is reserved for Il
"a prisoners time will show. The Indians we
A. without arms when SLAUGHTERED