Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1851-08-27
CALIFORNIA NEWS.

JUAN Nicaragua, Win sou passengers anu ~ Io,-
$40 in gold dust. The Prometheus left San Ju.
IN, Monday, the 4th, at / o'clock, a. NJ, and
arrived ut quarantine nj III o'clock, "A. NJ, ma
king the passage in days. and IL hours. bring
ing her passengers from the steamer Pacific,
which left San Francisco the 18th ult.. and ar
rived at San Juan Del Sud, on the 29th ult.,
with 425 passengers and 100000 in gold dust.
The passengers who came across the Nicara-
qua route, came fifteen 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 Promethcus, in thirty-two hours running
time. The passengers all express themselves
very much pleased with the route, and say that
the country is delightful. All are in good
health.
The news from California generally is unim-
porant with the exception that several addition
nj executions have taken place by order OF the
Vigilance Committee One Of the persons ex-
ecuted was the notorious Jim Stuart, an English
convict who was convicted Of murder and nu-
merous robberes. He confessed that he belong
ed to band, whose sole object was robbery and
murder The authorities endeavored to rescue
him from the hands of the Vigilance Committee
but did not succeed
The Prometheus does not bring the nails
She arrived off Sandy Hook at ii o'clock last
night
Judge Campbell charged the Grand Jury that
the Vigilance Committee were nothing else but
murderers The Mayor also issued his procla-
nation calling upon all good citizens to abandon
the Vigilance Committee, aud there was great
excitement.
Ricardo Lopez was executed at San Jose on
Friday, for the murder Of an United States dra-
COON. Col. Blackman was shot through the head
and killed while OH horseback on his way to the
North Fork
An extra session of the California Legislature
was still talked Of
Attempts had been made to fire the city of
Sonora.
The quartz mines are attracting the attention
of all classes of The community, and as the num-
hers daily entering into 1t are rapidly increasing,
there can be no doubt but that the yield Of gold
dust will be greatly augmented rs the year ad-
vances
The miners engaged in washing are doing re-
markably well, and there are few localities from
which unfavorabe accounts are received
Harvesting has become general throughout
the country, and the yield is likely to be very
large. Potatoes are beginning to be sent to
market and in some localities the yield is es-
timated at 10 tons to the acre. This, with the
estimate of 1900 to 1900 pounds Of barley also
10 the acre, is at least. proof that large portion
of the country is fertile enough to make it i'm
portant IN agricultural State.
Spanish woman was hung in Downieville,
in the Sacramento Valley, for numbering IL man
named Cannon, on the 7th inst.
The recent execution of Sturat in this city,
produced temporary excitement among those
who entertained opinions antagonstic to the ac-
ton Of the Committee, but it appears to be sub
siding
The news from the north is by no means
pleasant. The Indians in the entire vicinity of
Rogue's River, and the Kaamath region, have
exhibited the utmost hostility against The whites
aud being armed with guns and PISTOLS as well
as bows and arrows, are most formidable adj
versary.
The 4th of July was not celebrated with any
great pOmp, in consequence of the calamity that
has so recently betallen the city. 1t was how.
ever, observed by the firing of guns, parades of
societies, &c.
In Sacramento City, a most aggravated nigh
way robbery was committed on the 9th inst, in
broad day light. Impatient Of the laws delay,
the people, by their united expression, induced
the Court and the lawyers selected to defend the
prisoners, to go into y trial Immediately, and at
last accounts, one Of the party was before the
Court on trial.
The effects of the late fire in this city are vet
perceptible, bat the energy and enterprise of our
citizens appears to be unabated, and the burned
district, although not entirely rebuilt is pretty
thickly studded with tencments of all descrip-
tons, and brick and stone buildings of most
substantial character are in process of erection
in all parts.
From Oregon and the Sandwich Islands there
is nothing important.
According to the New Bedford whaling list,
greater portion Of the whaling business be-
longs to Massachusetts. The whole number of
vessels is six hundred and fve New Bedford
has two hundred and scventy.fve ships and
barks, and more than half the tonnage Nam
tucket, New London and Fairhaven, have about
an equal interest in the business. There are
now one hundred and thirty-two large ships and
barks in port, fitting for sea, and they will re-
qulre nearly four thousand men for officers and
crews. The total amount of property invested
in the whaling business must be between TWEEN.
ty and thirty millions Of dollars. The first sew
en- months of the year, there were landed about