The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-07-23
Arrival Of the Crescent city.
THE CALIFORNIA MAILS

THE CALIFORNIA MAILS
The U. s. mail steamship Crescent City
Capt Tanner, from Chagres by way of Jamaica;
arrived at New York on Monday, bringing one
hundred and forty-seven passengers, the Pacific
mails, and $l,0O4,087 in specie. Among the
passengers are Major Hobbie Of the Post Office
department, and Capt Day, u. SA
FROM THE WEST INDIANS
BY the Crescent City, we have Jamaica papers
to the l4th inst, three days later than those re.
ceyed by the Brother Jonathan. We have also
late files of Barbados and British Guinea Jour
nails
The Kingston Journal of the I4th says
The Northside papers brought by Saturday g
post announce the continuance Of the ravages
of cholera in Savanna la Mar. and the parish Of
Westmoreland, M also in Green Island and
Hanover. In Westmoreand the desease has
attacked with equal virulence and irresistible
fatality persons of all classes. Up to Saturday
the 9Th, there had been buried from Savana-l a.
Mar in the cholera ground, 1ll5; from Dun
bars river and the neighborhood, as and on
Sunday night there were six burias, making
total of l66 besides which two new cases were
reported on Sunday, and two on Monday, and
the hospitals were full Mr.. Davidson the as
sduous superintendent of the hospital, is among
the victims.
A letter in the same paper from Savana-la-
Mar, says that the whole number of cholera
deaths this season, up to the 10th inst, was two
hundred.
The governor has further prorogued the
assembly of the island to the 10Th of August
The Georgetown GUIANA Gazette notices
the arrival there Of seventy two Portuguese
mechanics, from st. Miguels The Gazette is
Of opinion that good supply of agricultural
laborers could be derived from the Azores.
Madeira and other islands of that vicinity, if
some means were taken to dsabuse the minds
ofthe Inhabitants of certain i'll founded opinions
as to their distance from Guiana, and their pros
poets of success upon their arrival there.
FROM SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
We have a copy Of Los Angeles Star Of May
81, which furnishing more circumstsntal ac-
count of the massacre of Capt. Irving's party =
Irving's party first went to Felipe Lugo's and
broke open and en- cred the house. Whether or
not they stole anything of value is not certain.
They ransacked the trunks and scattered the
clothing about, and probably took away some
articles of small value. They then proceeded
to Jose Maria Lugo's, six miles from Feipe's
The people at the ranches fled at their approach,
but it does not appear that they entered any
houses except those of the Lugos. 1t is the
tno bWO yOuuk lsuxoS. NdIiOus circumstances
prevailing opinion that their object was to murder
tend to strengthen this belief
Irving had been heard to say that he would
take the scalp of the young Lugos, and there
can be little doubt that he was bent on murder
rs well az plumber
Not finding the Lugos Mt home, Irving left the
premises, and struck into a road leading into the
mountains. He must have supposed that he
could gain the valley beyond, or he never would
have allowed himself to be surrounded in the
manner which he was
The Cowies, many Of whom are domicilated
at Lugos, followed up Irving's party and at
tackled them with bows and arrows and ances
Irving followed the road into ravine, the steep
banks of which prevented his egress, and here
it was that the whole party was slain. Not one
was left to tell the tale. The Indians first shot
them down with arrows, and then beat in their
skulls with stones. Persons who have seen the
dead bodies describe them as being mangled in
a manner shocking to behold.
Those who are known to be killed, are John
Irving, Frank Wilson, Perley, Jack Hitchcock,
Charles Iavelle and George Clark Besides
Ehese men, there were known to be with Irving,
when he left here, VIM. O'Donnell, Peter, (sup-
,osed to be the brother of O'DonnellJ Alfred
Spencer, Mason, Bogel, and three men called