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


The u. S. mail steamship Crescent City,
Capt. Tanner, from Chagres by way of Jamaica,
arrived nj New York on Monday, bringing one
hundred and forty-seven passengers, the Pacific
mails, and 81 ,004,9S7 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-
ceived by the Brother Jonathan. We have also
late files of Barbados and British Guinea Jour-
nails.
The Kingston Journal of the l4th says
The Northside papers brought by Saturday
post announce the continuance Of the ravages
Of cholera in Savannah. Mar, and the parish Of
Westmoreand, as also in Green Island and
Hanover. In Westmoreland the desease has
attacked with equal virulence and irresistible
fatality persons Of all classes Up to Saturday
the 5th, there had been buried from Savana-l a.
Mar in the cholera ground, lll5; from Dun
bars river and the neighborhood, 45, and on
Sunday night there were six burials making a
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
siduous superintendent of the hospital is among
the victims.
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 Porting uese
mechanics, from st. Mguels. The Gazette is
Of opinion that good supply of agricultural
laborers could be derived from the Azores,
Madeira and other islands Of that vicinity, II
some means were taken TO disabuse 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 copy of Los Angeles Star of May
81, which furnishing more circumstantial nc.
count of the massacre Of Capt Irviug's party -
Irving's party first went to Felipe Lugos 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 Felipes.
The people at the ranches fed at their approach,
but II does not appear that they entered any
houses except those of the Lugos. II is the
the two young Lugos. Various 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
as well as plumber.
Not finding the Lugos at home, Irving left the
premises, and struck into 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 lances.
Irving followed the road into a ravine, the steep
banks of which prevented lis egress, and here
Il was chat 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 10 be killed, are John
Irving, Frank Wilson, Perley, Jack Hitchcock,
Charles Lavele and George Clark. Besides
these men, there were known to be With Irving,
when he left here, VIM. O'Donnel, Peter, (sup.
posed TO be the brother Of ODonnell,) Alfred
Spencer, Mason, Bogel and three men called