The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1851-08-14
EBEIsBURG, AUGUST Il. 1851.

Some persons who took offence at a,, article =;
| the Sonora Herald, went to the room of one of
..e ea,'ors, LII l.. u Green, dragged him from
his bed and shot him through the head Tbev
| also killed two other persons connected with tSs
once, and Killed or wounded three or four others
who went to their assistance.
TOW nad occurred among the miners near
GafsohT digglngs, in which two Americans and
thf -e O te'r. Mexicans were killed
colonel Barbours division of the Indian Cow,
mission was at a stand STILL for want of fnnds
Dr. Wozencraft was progressing at his own ex-
pense. "a
Two men, named Watkins and Brier. had
been found guilty of burglary and Sentenced
que 70 Ten years and the other to five years.
Imprisonment.
party Of nine men, under CAPTAIN Fitz Pat
rick, had been cut off at Rogue River and all
murdered. ~
During the night of the great fire, Lewis Pol
lock, was called from his bed, and upon making
his appearance, was shot dead by man named
Samuel Gallaler.
The citizens of Marysville have formed a yipi
lance committee for the protection of life and
property.
Quite large company of Mormons. from
Salt Lake Valley, had arrived at the Los Anpe-
los Valley.
The accounts from the mines and placers are
very encouraging.
The prospec5 of good crops throupbout tho
country also encouraging.
Our city is gong up again very fast Two
hundred buildings were erected during the past
week.
A FORTNIGHT Is CALIFoRNIa-The excitement
caused by the yillainous conduct of the despera-
does among us has resulted in determination.
on the part of our citizens, to prevent as far as
possible the landing of persons from the penal
colonies, unless they produce testimony of good
character Another determination is to send
out OF -the country as many as possible of the
abandoned gang who infest our city.
Much discussion has resulted in consequence
OF the formation of the Vigilance Committee and
their subsequent acts, but they have generally
been sustained by the community. To thinking
and dIslnterested men, the cry that they are op-
posed to law and order sounds ridiculous from
the fact that we have had no order because no
law was administered until the Committee was
formed, and had forced some consciousness of
their duties upon the delinquents.
In the City of Sonora, a worthy citizen, Cant.
Snow, having been brutally murdered, and two
OF the assassins having been taken in few days
afterwards, they were tried and hung by the
PoPulace, and buried in the grave which they
had dug for their VICTIM
marauding party of twelve men, command
Gu py oaptaln irT1ng, were all killed by the
Indians OF the Cohuila tribe, near Los Angeles
There is n prospect that Mr.. Hoatling's pro-
posluon Tor supplying the city with water viii
sooG be commenced.
q party which left Trinidad to explore the
sparta country, had arrived at Trinidad.
Several days during the past week were hot
ter than experienced for long time. The heat
has been extremely severe in the interior.
The citizens of Marysville have found it neces-
sary, as have our own, to form q Vigilance
Committee for the protection of lives and pro-
perty.
Accounts from the mines and placers are very
encouraging, especially in the rotten quartz Dig
gings.
The prospect through the country for good
crops is excellent, and q vast amount Of yegeta-
bles will undoubtedly be produced.
There has been quartz mining Convention
held in Mariposa county, at which some very
important resolutions were adopted.
CHNAMEN CoMING.-The San Francisco Post
says, vessel arrived from China a few days
since with 223 of the Long Queues and Flaun-
ting Breeches gentlemen, from the Land of the
Celestials. The number of shoemakers among
them is two hundred and twenty-one, also one
lawyer, and one doctor. All their names except
four commence with A.