Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-10-20
1ATnE FROM CALIFORNIA.
TWO MILLIONS IN GoLD-DIsASTRoUS NEWS
FROM THE WHALING FLEET-RoBBERY OF
THE SPECIE TRAIN ON THE IsTHMUs.

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The Illinois has arrived with advices from San
Francisco to Sept. 18th. She brings nearly 400
passengers and $4,000, 900 in gold dust.
/ The Illinois has made her run home from Cha
4 gres in days, 10 hours, the quickest passage on
Eecord,
I The Panama railroad was progressing favorably.
TheiEngineers confdentykexpect to run locomo.
tive to Gatoon by Oct. 18th
Among the passengers by the Illinois, are seven
| persons who have made 100000 at the mines.
A dreadful riot has occurred at San Juan del Sur,
! tetweentbe soldiers and emigrants.
| The great specie train OF the Pacific Company
robbed seven miles from Panama. After riding
several miles, Captain Garrison and his friends
up with the train and found it in the widest
/ confusion Three Of the guard had been shot by
the robbers, and were lying in the road, two in
dying condition. Fhe robbers had made off with
the box OF gold, but delayed by its weight they
Overtaken and fled. Two were captured; five 9TH
ers it was thought, would be caught. The robbers
were told that the train contained $2O0O,O00.
SUMMARY OF CALIFORNIA NEWS.
The election of Governor in California is still in
doubt, and the official returns alone determine
the result. The Legislature will he Democratic
The vote throughout the State was small.
Messrs E. c. Marshall and McCorke, Dems,
are elected to Congress.
The division Of the State still attracts consdera-
bic discussion. The members elected to the Legs.
ature from the Southern Counties are pledged to aid
abe movement.
The gold diggngs continue TO yield rich returns
ahe quartz veins are being worked with great sue
cess In the dry diggings, the miners are only
waiting Ion the rainy season TO take out large
amounts of gold.
disease has broken out among the Chinese pop.
uatlon OF California, resembling Cholera. The dys-
EMERY is also prevalent.
IMPORTANT FROM THE WHALIFG FLEET
The following vessels are reported as being totally
lost this season:-Ajax, Of Havre--total oss Ara
matha, of N. Lonpon-toia loss; Henry Thompson
OF do.--total loss; New Bedford, of New Bedford,
total lois; America, Of New Bedford-total loss;
Cosmopolite, of France-total loss; Mary Mitchell,
Of San Francisco-total loss. 1t appears that the
whole Whaling feet had wintered in the Gulf of
Anadin, ON the northern part of the Sea of Kans-
catka--Russa, in Ashland on the coming of
spring had set sail for Behring's Straits, but on at
tempting pass through into the Arctic Ocean, the
feet was environed by ice, and the above named
vessel were totally wrecked. The crews Of the
destroyed vessels are reported 10 nave rcacnei inc
man land in safety, but it is said that in some dis
turbances afterwards with the natives, IL of the
whalemen lost their lives.
1t was supposed that some sixty more vessels had
shared the fete of those mentioned above. and II
was quite impossible to tell how MANY more wonld
be likely to be lost in their attempts to escape from
the ice.
The general result Of this seasons whaIe-fshing
is set down total failure.