The republic., 1851-09-06
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what the papers contain of interest:
PAsaINo EyxsTs-The San Francisco Morning
Post, Of July 81, has the following summary
The events of the past two weeks are OF q less ex-
citing character than those embraced IN the sum-
mary Of the last steamer. No great outrage has oc
CURED to heighten the excitement In the public
mind; the subsisting excitement has abated. Under
the amended criminal code, which took effect on
the first instant, and which allows the jury dis
cretion to punish either with imprisonment, or by
death, those guilty OF arson, robbery, burglary,
&c, (among many other rigorous but necessary
provisions, few trials have been had, among the
most conspicuous of which is the Robinson Gibson,
and Thompson, convicted at Sacramento Of the
robbery of James Wilson, and condemned to death.
II is hoped that the courts will act promptly and
in the spirit OF this law that instance may oc
cur in which it may be deemed necessary, by any
of our courts, to resort to extra judicial punish
ments.
The reports from all the mining districts are
more favorable than at any period during the pre-
sent year, and the shipments OF gold for August
and September viii doubtless far exceed those oil
any previous month
The most remarkable feature Of mining opera
tions are the numerous undertakings by compa-
nies all along the veins and tributaries, to divert
the water from their channels; the extensive ca
mails the tributaries Of Caavaras, Tuolumne,
American ana Yuba, to carry water upon piacers
known to be rich, but without water; and lastly,
the fair prospect Of practical and successful be,
ginning of quartz mining with heavy, improved
machinery.
the rivers has been especially favorable to enter
prises Of the first class many; damming companies
are already at work in the beds of streams, which
have been exposed for miles, and some rich de-
posts have been struck, and there is prospect OF
still further fall of the rivers for the next three
months.
The canal projects, at frat on a limited scale and
successful, have been undertaken on large plans
and with heavy capital. That for turning the
South Fork OF the American several miles through
the hills to the valleys and gulches about Placer
vile, is the most gigantic one on foot, and the
company 10 about To be organized, with such con-
fidence that the stock, from quarter to half mil
lion, will be readily taken by the miners in that
vicinity.
The subject of agriculture is beginning to attract
considerable interest. Although the past winter
and spring unusually dry, experiments have
proved eminently successful, and there is desire
among many who came here as mere solourners
to settle permanently in California, and gather
around them the comforts of home 1t is cstima-
ted that there already twenty thousand persons
settled and devoted TO agricultural pursuits
The Indian hostilities have ceased on the south
ern and eastern borders, and broken out on the
northern frontier. A military expedition, under
command of eneral J. M. Estell, will accompany
the Indian commissioner in their tour OF negotia-
ton TO Clear Lake, thence to the sources OF the
Sacramento. After which they will proceed TO
Klamath rivor. The hostile Indians on Rogue's
river have been dispersed but not subdued
There are about one hundred and fifty substan-
tal brick houses in San Francisco, nearly oil of
extensive preparations are in progress for the
manufacture Of brick and the quarrying of stone TO
fill numerous contracts of this kind.
A fire occurred in Sacramento city on the morn
ing the 10Th, which destroyed eight houses The
loss was small yet it s the largest fire which has
occurred in that favored city.
Gold mines are worked in Carson's Valley,
on the eastern decliyities of the Sierra Nevada.
The two political parties holding conven-
tons in the various counties TO nominate for the
Legislature and for county Offices The four can
<iidatea for Congress have been busily engaged In
xanvassing the State
IHpIAN WAN IN SHAsTA-ONE HUNDRED In
prANs SLAIN.--Late intelligence from Sacramento
give accounts OF extensive slaughter of Indians
at Pitt river.
On the morning of the 9th July party Of ff.
teen men, under the command Of Capt. b. +. Har-
vey, made attack upon some eight hundred
Pitt River Indians, some twenty miles from Shasta.
A warm fire Immediately commenced, and was
kept up for some considerable time, during which
time some sxty seventy were killed, and large
number mortally wounded. The party captured
and brought in four squaws, and one young child
nbout six years old. On the following morning
one hundred and fifty men, well armed, left for
Pitt river and all other parts OF the country where
the Indians were to be found.
On the night Of the l4th party of five men
(rniners) were attacked in the night four miles
from Shasta. man by the name OF Mathews,
from Iowa, shot dead on the spot, and three
others badly wounded, one of whom has since died.
His name was Osborne, from Salem, Massachu
ones were taken from the ST. Charles Hotel and
decently inferred. The Indiana daily com
mitting depredations, killing one, two, three at
time every few days.
INDIAN TREATIES MILITARY MOVEMENTS
The Indian commissioner, Colonel Redick Mckee,
we are informed, was to leave Sonoma about the
Ist of August. for the purpose OF making treaties
with the Indians in all that portion of the State
living north of the Bay Of San Francisco and west
Of the Sacramento river. He would be acCompa
.,,d k,yo Lotto of In atPsd drap
under the command Of Major Kearny, as an es-
0ort
Major General Estell and staff of the second divi
sion State militia, would also accompany the cx-
pediton as far as Clear Lake, where it is supposed
treaty will be easily entered into with the
numerous tribes that reside upon its shores
Should the Commissioner succeed in negotiating
treaty of peace with the Clear Lake Indians, he will
then proceed north to the klamath and Trinidad,
concluding such peaceabe understandings with
the Indians along the route as may be possible
Col. Mckee expects to reach Trinidad about the
25th August.
So soon as amicable arrangements are entered
into with the Indians around Clear Lake, Major
General Estel will return to San Francisco, and
from thence proceed by water to the Klamath he
has already, under orders from the Governor,
taken steps to organize five companies of volun-
in that region, and they will be ready to act
at a moments warning. The general expects to
reach Trinidad about the 2eth Of August, and will
be prepared upon the arrival OF Colonel McKee,
to aid and assist the commissioner in forming
treaties, or Furnishing the Indians as may be neces
sary and proper.
The State forces operating against the Indians
and stationed at Pacervilie have been reinforced,
and detachment of thirty mounted men sent 10
Mormon station, where fight occurred last week.
We learn, by way of San Diego, that three COM
panies, which were short time since withdrawn
from post on the Gia river, and stationed at San
Isabel have been ordered to the above town.
PaocLAAATIoN OF GovERNsR McDoUdAL-The
following proclamation has been issued by Gov
xarner McDougal. in relation to the organization Of
"vigilance committees"
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
VALLEJO, July u, 1851
10 The People IF the STATE Of California:
It has been represented to me that organizations
ug citizens, styling themselves Vigilance Com
xaittees' have been formed in various portions OF
the State, and assume powers inconsistent with the
eniating laws, and serious approximations are en-
tertained of collision between the constituted au-
thorities and the citizens thus organized; and it
becomes Hay duty to take some step by which 50
great calamity may be averted. II is earnestly
hoped that few simple and practical suggestions
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