The New York herald., 1851-08-23
ONE DAY LATER FROM CALIFORNIA.


sAs FsAscIsoo, July l5-SP.M
T< Laiest CsIfs~is News.
forwarded ny regular eemi- despatch yester
Ay BY the steamer Pscihc and viii add short letter BY
shs mall steamer Northerner this afternoon, with
days later from California ~eeks later from
Oregon, and sixteen days later from the Sandwich
lslands
The additional from State Is OF no special
Importance foul murder was committed on the per
OF odd respected resident, Senor Guerrero, on
Saturday, the Mission highway, about three miles
from this city. His scu horribly fractured by
slung shot A Frenchman has been arrested for the
outrage and is now in hands Of the Vigilance Com
mittee The verdict Of the coroners jury was positive
TO his guilt In twenty four hours We shall prooaoy
witness another execution by the people Really, We
have fallen upon strange times but We are In strange
country, and may have strange way of doing things
but be that it may do them nov most eneetuAy.
The rascal who gets into the hands OF ne so'eresns
will main there until justice is satisfied
Judge Campbell of this city his charge TO the grand
jury told them every engaged in the hang
ing of Jim Stewart-of which forwarded the Herald
full account privy that asr Was guilty
of murder Az there about eight hundred Of
most respect able citizens enrolled the Vigilance Com
Inttee the grand inquest will their hands full Of
business and the suggestions Of Judge Campbell be fol-
lowed the courts will nd employ until they grow
grey in the service Eight hundred murderers would
present rather formidable array
The news OF Captain Stewards murder by the Indians
is confirmed
An arrival last night from the Sandwich Islands gives
US sixteen days later intelligence from that region to
the l4h OF June There 10 of i'm portance The
Ponesa is discussing the subject IL Independence
ProtscSon proceeding the supposson that the
tive government become though such
an event is to be deprecated.
The Northerner takes about 81 100000 her mani
fest She Is crowded with passengers so also the sarah
Ssnds which sailed two hours since The Pacinc carried
-four hundred.
r. 8. The steamer Chesapeake, from Hun boldt and
Trinidad has just come up the bay She brings about
$600to, the product OF the Klamath and Rogue river
mines.
When the Chesapeake left Humboldt, thir'ysix hours
since all quiet the klamath between the indians
and whites But few depTedstions Of minor character
had been committed by the Indians since the last ad
vices. The whites, however, were taking measures TO
fortify themselves against attack
The U S. schooner Ewirg at Humboldt, surveying
No other arrivals to-day The wind is blowing
naco and il is doubtful whether the Northerner gets
outside the Golden Gate tonight. FRANK.
RIOT ON THE coNsuMNEs-THREE KILLED, AND
THREE WOUNDED.
From the San Francisco Courier. July Is
riot occurred saturday on the premises Of Mr.
Sheldon about twenty four miles from Sacramento 1t
this gentleman had constructed dam for the pur
pose Of irrystne Dis farm and that this dam was OBJ
ected to by miners working the higher up Both
parties peIss,ipg, Ar sheldon placed cannon the
dam for its fence but his abs The mners
on Saturday and spiked 1t. takIng the man who took
of it prscner Upon hearing this Mr. sheldon and
party of friends repair 70 the spot
hessrs sheldon, Johnson yody, Gelston Dickerson,
risen, walked forward INTO various pats vi dam
some sxeen Of the other party advanced TO cut away
the Of the breastwors. DIR. snedon tolt them
that they trespasIng upon his property. d ths
tie nrst man who struck blow tosarus cutting away
the dam would be klit d immediately after thl-,
one bfed sLo struck johnson ia the ie breast the
Eeok He walked aiew steps aud remarked boys In a
dead man. and fell The crowd upon the b1uks were
then heard TO say, there we've killed johnson,
give IL o Sheldon. give IL 10 sheldon and immediately
large number OF guns nred. BAT S1-idon, who
was facing them he hear these words turned right
side to tht and receiving ball in h right breast which
truverted the chest ana out u1der lhs iet armp
feI down dead without word struggle Mr. GeistOn,
eesiIg HIM dfad retreated lev backward uD0a
some Iocks In the centre Of the dam and worked himself
into assure OF tie in which place red at
but not hit. MIR Cooy's abdomen p-rf0l ated by
large ball just above the OF the lum Mr. Decker
son received buck shot the back VI his neck which
penetrated in the direction Il the carotid artery Mr.
Bush Vas III shtly injured II his ancle aud II IA
repoitso that The axsma who stood snrdon
slightly wornded in the breast. Some VI Sbeldoas party
we're taken prisoner bat ul lnat.y released la snei
done party were three out. according ~ the
counts given Enne CT them tred. fne number
a m'ners afnd varlCusy estimated AT from ~ ICJ
Ar. Cody died on sunday night al IL o clock The
mining party charge Mr. sEelauR having fred
Ile following Is a last VI the Killed AMI woanscd;-
Jared Sheldon, formerly Of Und.rhgn VI; James VI
johnson, formerly Of Lancaster, Iowa. Edward Cody
formerly u Pox River, Illinois.
WOUNDED
Calvin Dickerson, from Derrien county Mlchigan;
Emanuel Brsh DesmoiBes Co, CLio