Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1850-10-10
Later frem California.
ARRIVAL OF THE CHEROKEE.


Steamship Cherokee, Capt. Windle, left
Chagres on the s5th ult., and Kingston, Ja on
the 2sth, and arrived at New York on Satur-
day.
The amount of gold freight on her manifest
was Se55,92o, passengers supposed to have
about $50, 900.
The Cherokee left at Chagres steamers Geor.
gia, Empire City and Alabama, awaiting The
arrival of the Northerner's mail The bullion
had all been received.
Steamer Panama was at Acapulco on the
10th Sept. She sailed from Panama on the
LIST of Sept. with the Cherokee's passengers
and their friends may be assured of their per
feet exemption from cholera. The disease haC
subsidized on the lsthmus.
The steamer Generel Warren, Captain I
Smith, arrived at Panama on the 10th, woulC
leave on the 9th of September for San Fran
cisco.
The Columbus left Panama the 18th, ant
the Carolina on the 10th for San Francisco
taking off most of those who were waiting fol
passage.
San Francisco papers are to the 3Ist of Aug
l6 days later than our previous advices. The
news is favorable. The San Francisco Herald
furnishes the following summary of event:
since the sailing Of the last steamer:
The squatter troubles in Sacramento al.
most wholly ceased after the first outbreak
Some of the ringlcaders now await their trial
A few days after the fight in Sacramento, sher.
If mckinney was killed in attempting TO arrest
man named Allen, one of tina leaders of the
sqnatter party. Capt. Radford, one Of his par
ty, was wounded Capt Hammersly was thrown
from his horse and wounded. Two of tho
squatters were killed, and John Hughes, Jas
X. Coifman and w. B. Cornogg were taker
prisoners.
Rumors prevailed in Sacramento that ban,
of four hundred armed men were in the vicini
ty OF Neaversville, preparing TO make des
cent on Sacramento for the purpose of securin,
the prisoners The wounds of Mayor Bigeloy
are not likely TO prove fatal 1t is said tina
his physicians entertain some hopes of his re
covery.
business hitherto backward, has given som
indication of improvement. In Sacrament
there Is a decided briskness, and in this cit
there IS every reason to believe there will
great activity IN the course Of two weeks. TIL
appearance of the city is much improved by tn
fine rows of buildings lately erected, and I'll
streets are IN progress of repair. The gre;
cost of trelghts, as well as the expenses
building on the site of the recent confagratioI
have rendered money for some time scarce, b,
the gold dust begins 10 come from the mine.
and 1t will doubtless, from this time for the r,
malnder OF the season, continue to flow IN abul
dainty.
The emlgrants continue to arrive in laro
numbers, and for the most part in great dest
tuition.
From the Sacramento papers Of August |
we gather that Mr.. Robinson has been ARE:
ted and placed in confinement on the oat
OF several gentlemen that saw HIM deIibe
ately aim at the mayor. An lrisllman nan
ed Caulield, accused of a similar act has a
so been arrested.
The San Francisco Herald :-TheI
are now on the overland route not less tia
sixty thousand persons. The forty miles ,
desert which stretches from the Sierra n
vada, are strewn with the bodies of dead ca
lie, while several persons have been iouI
drowned. II is proposed to send out sec
ond expedition, with a view of establishr
a depot of provisions on the edge Of deser
1t IS 10 be apprehended that hundreds ha,
already died from starvation, and hundret
Will as surely die If they be not speedily r.
; lIeved. The paper acknowledges the recei
OF over four thousand dollars in money, al
a very large amount of provisions for the
relief.
The troubles in Tie southern mines al
not altogether AZ an end
Prof. Forrest Shepherd had returned fror
the head water of Mariposa creek, the re
gion OF the gold-bearing quartz. The quar-
vein varies from three TO six feet in thickness
and runs nearly +. and w. in walls of tal
core slate. Mr.. Taylor estimates that III
VEN If worked constantly cannot be exhaus
ed in fifty years:
There has been some trouble between tn
settlers in the vicinity of Trinity Bay. FIT
or sixty Indians were killed. and three villa
ges were burnt. Thomas Boroughs. late c
St. Stephens, N. b., was killed in an affra
with the Indians on the 10Th of Angus
about five miles aboye The forks of the X liam
river.