The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1850-10-02
Latest News OF tho Sacramento City Riot
--Death OF tho Mayor and othors-Burn-
ing OF the city.

--Death OF tho Mayor and others-Burn-
ing OF the City.
The outbreak commenced Wednesday, Au-
gest 10Th. An armed body of about 60 squatters
proceeded to the prison ship, to release two OF
their party who were confined on board. They
were confronted by Mayor Bigalow, and men,
bers of the corporation, and an atiray soon at
ter commenced The city was reused oarms.
Mayor Bigalow was shot in three places, and
died in Is minutes afterwards. J. w. Wood
land, City Assessor, was shot dead, and several
other citizens were killed and wounded. DR..
Robinson and man named Mahony, two lead
ers of the Squatters, were shot dead, as were
several others ofthe party. The Squatters force
soon swelled from 60 to between 700 and $40
armed men.
The keepers of gambling houses and sporting
men, generally, sided with the citizens and real
estate owners A tremendous force soon assem-
bled Lieut.. Gov. McDougal returned to the
city as soon as he heard Oft the affray, and the
steamer McKim was dispatched to Benicia, and
the Senator to San Francisco, for arms and men
to use them.
The above is the substance Of the news as
published in San Francisco papers; but as the
steamer was getting under way at A. NJ a
dispatch was received on board, from the Pacific
News Office, stating that an express had ar
rived with the intelligence that Sacramento City
was reduced to ashes, and that the Squatters
were receiving renforcements from the mines.
The California News.
The San Francisco correspondent of the N.
Y. Commercial Advertiser thus gives brief
resume Of the most Important events transpir-
ing in California, at the sailing of the Steamer
Panama on the 1st of August:
SAN FRANclsco, Aug. l, 1850.
The Panama sails this evening with $50 pas
sengers. There were also a large number of
applications for berths, which could not be sup
piled. The amount Of gold dust sent by this
steamer is large, nearly two millions of dollars
on FREE ght and in the hands of passengers
The news from the mines is somewhat dis
couraging. The rivers are yet too high to work
advantageously, and the ravines have not dried
up. Companies ofminers are at work turning
the rivers through bout the gold regions, and we
may expect good reports from them in the
course Of another month. Claims on the Zuba
thirty feet square, have been sold as high as So
900,
The troubles at the Southern mines, particu-
larly in the neighborhood of the southern mines,
still continue. The accounts of the murders
committed really frightful, and the end is
not yet The Mexicans and Chiliars will be
driven from the diggings, and armed forces have
been organized to carry such a proceeding into
effect.
At the Mormon Gulch, the foreigners have
received formal notice to leave in one week.
The fact is settled, that the Americans and for
e gners cannot work together in harmony; and
If either party must succumb, the side to which
American sympathy will be given cannot be
doubted.
There are those who trace all these dstur-
Dances to the foreign mining tax, so called, I'M
posed by the last Legislature. The foreigners
resisted the payment Of the tax, ($2O per month)
and as consequence, wherever they had good
CLAIM, they were arlvcn away by individuals who
urged the non-payment of the tax excuse
for such proceedings
Murders Of Americans followed, and the
offence was charged to the Mcxicans and South
Americans, without attempting to designate the
actual perpetrator The fact has been proved
that among the recent immigrants from Mexico,
came many of The highway robbers of that
country, and | am disposed to believe that most
of the robberies and murders were committed
by them. The chief Of one of these guerilla
bands is now in prison in this city.
The prospect of large business this fall is
encouraging. Wo:kmen are engaged in gra-
ding and planking the streets, in view Of the
rainy season. Artcsan wells and reservoirs
have been made and fire companies formed to
aid in preventing the spread of conhagration-
and, in fact every thing looks cheering.