The republic., 1851-08-15
From California.


on Wednesday morning from San Juan de Nj
caragua, bringing California dates to the 10th of
July. The Prometheus has brought on freight
S57S ,579 in gold dust, besides what she may have
brought in the hands Of passengers, who number
three hundred and sixty. She left San Juan on
Monday, August 4, at III a. m, and arrived at
Staten Island, below New York. on the
18th instant, at ii O'Clock p. M. making the pas
sage in eight days and twelve hours, bringing her
passengers from the steamer Paclhc, which leit
San Francisco on the l4th ultimo, and arrived at
San Juan del Sud on the 29th, with four hundred
and twenty-five passengers and $oOO,OOO IN gold
dust. We learn from the New York Tribune that
the passengers by the Nicaragua route came fif-
teen miles by land carriage; thence took the
steamer Director across Lake Nicaragua; thence
the new iron steamer Sir Henry L. Bulwer down
the San Juan river to the Prometheus, in thirty
two hours running time. They all expressed
themselves very much pleased with the route, and
say that the country is delightful. They had no
sickness.
The following synopsis of events is taken from
the -Alta California of the 18th of July:
''Snce the departure of the mail steamer, on the
first OF the present month, the only event OF mo-
ment which has transpired in city has been the
trial, conviction, and execution of ielon known
Jim Stuart, by the vigilance committee, body
of citizen Of the highest respectabiity and stand
ing in society. He was hung for multiplicity OF
offences, and, by his own confession, voluntarily
made, was villain OF the most desperate charac-
ter. He was hung about o'clock, on Friday, the
llth inst, at the end of Market wharf, in the pre-
sence of several thousand citizens.
GA Spanish woman was hung in Downeville, in
the Sacramento valley, for numbering man
named Cannon, on the 7th inst.
''In Sacramento, Marysvile, Stockton, and else
where, the citizens have felt themselves compelled
to act in their behalf, the laws having proved
so utterly inadequate in themselves, and their ad
ministration by the properly constituted authori-
ties so lax.
"Men have been executed for offences of Grim
inal nature in this city and in Stockton. The
cent execution of Stuart in this city produced
temporary excitement among those who entertained
opinions antagonistic to the action of the COM
mittee; but it appears to be subsiding. His honor
Mayor Brenham has issued proclamation desir
ing all good citizens to withdraw from the vigi-
lance committee, or associations of like charac-
ter; and Judge Campbell, ofGthe court OF sessions,
the 18th instant, charged the grand jury for the
county that all those concerned in the execution of
Stuart had been guilty of murder, or were partceps
criminis.
ercise its powers and is using its utmost endeavors
to rid the community of the villains who have 30
long infested it. Their acts are sustained by ma
jority of the citizens. Organizations of similar
character have sprung up in almost all the promi-
nent places Of California, and the courts have been
forced, by the expression of public sentiment, to
pay stricter attention to the administration OF the
law
"The intelligence from the north is by no means
pleasant. A party of pioneer emigrants, who had
been landed at Point Oxford, above Trinidad, con-
sisting of ten men, under command of Capt Kirk
patrick, were massacred by the Indians. The In
dams in the entire vicinity of Rogue's river, and
the Klamath region, have exhibited the utmost hos
tty against the whites, and being armed with guns
and pistols, as well as bows and arrows, are most
formidable adversary. Several parties of whites
i'm off had
mitted depredations, at the last accounts.
"The Indians are still troublesome in Sacra-
mento valley, and refuse TO come in at the place
specified by DR.. o. M. Wozencraft, oftbe Indian
commissioners. Colonel Mckee, also of the COM
mission, isat Benicia, preparing to prosecute his
mission in the region OF the Klamath and Trinity
rivers. Colonel Barbour is in the vicinity of Los
Angeles, intending to visit again the Indians in the
Tulare valley, who have recently exhibited a dis
position to break their treaty of peace and amity.
The commission are totally without funds, and ut
terly unable prosecute their mission to success
fal issue without additional supplies.
ga rencontre took place on the Let instant be-
tween George F. Lemon, City Assessor, and Will
liam II. Graham, young lawyer. Shots were
exchanged, and Graham was shot in the mouth
and left arm Lemon Immediately gave himself
up, but his adversary having told him to draw and
defend himself, and suited the action to the word
the recorder discharged him. Graham Is out and
doing we'll.
1.-THE 9TH of July was not celebrated with any
great pomp, in consequence of the calamity which
has recently befallen the city 1t was, however,
observed by the firing of guns, parades, &c.
"ln Sacramento City most aggravated highway
robbery committed on the 9th inst, in broad
daylight. Impatient of the laws delay, the peo-
ple by their united expression induced the court,
and the lawyers selected to defend the prisoner, to
70 into trial Immediately, and at last accounts
one of the party was before the court on trial.
"The Mormons making decided movement
toward establishing direct communication from
the Salt Lake to the Pacific. A large party have
recently arrived from Salt Lake through the Cajon
Pass, about sixty miles from Los Angeles, with an
expressed determination to settle in that section.
They said to be negotiating for the purchase OF
a very fine rancho belonging to Senior Antonio
Longo.
"fhe intelligence from the mines continues to
be extremely encouraging, and a general spirit
of contentment seems to prevail among the miners.
"The effects of the late fire in this city are yet
percephble. but the energy and enterprise OF our
citizens appears to be unabated. The burned
district although not entirely rebuilt, is pretty
thickly studded with tenements of all descriptions,
and brick and stone buildings of the most sub
stantial character in process Of erection in all
parts"
The California papers abound with accounts oi
Lynch law executions, of murders, robberies, rev.
elations Of crime, Indian massacree, sc. man
named James Stuart, convicted of murder and rob-
berry, tried, condemned, and executed by the
vigilance committee of San Francisco, on the lth
of July.
The affair had created great excitement at San
Francisco from the fact that the community is di'
vided into two partes-one favoring the admins
tration of the Lynch code by the vigilance com
mittee, and the other opposed to it. AS far as WE
are enabled to judge by the papers, the former are
still in the ascendancy, but how long this state
things will last we cannot say.
The San Francisco correspondent of the New
York Journal Of Commerce, referring to the vigi
lance committee of that place, says:
"Cahfornia, and this city in particular, is pass
| ing through fiery ordeal, resulting from the de
termined efforts of our citizens to rid themselves
the organized bands of thieves, robbers, and mur
derers who have so long infested this community
Your readers have before been apprised of the exc
cution of 'Jenkins' by the vigilance committee OF
the night of the 10th June. Since then their mum
bers and efficiency have been constantly increas
ing and strengthening. They now have nearly
sev en- hundred members, who by turns are on dut.
nights and day; most of them arc our fret mer
chants, bankers, &c, in whom the public hav
confidence. The committee have spared neithe
expense, time, or trouble TO arrest and punish tn
guilty. They have publicly offered reward o
$4,000 for the arrest and conviction OF any person