The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-08-15

priest addressed the assemblsgs In Spanish. The
sheriff notified the military corps that their services
of the execution of an Indian, for the murder of
Spaniard.
From the San Francisco Courier. July III
A NEST daring highway robbery was com uitted
the person Of Mr. James Wilson. They Knocked o,
him down in the street In broad daylight and rob-
bed him of $500 They were instantly arrested.
The people demanded their Immediate execution.
ing to hold special session yesterday to try them
II found guilty. under the new law, they will be
hung. ~
The names of the persons are derived from their
own declarations;-Wm. Senjamin Robinson, Of
New York. lately residing at No. Is West Broad
way; John Thompson, of liverpool, England,
shipped at Valparaiso, in the Elizabeth Elem from
this country in the ship Union, from Van Diemsn's
Land Owen Cruthers, Of Irelsnd-caue here in
the brig Speck, from Liverpool The ages OF the
first three are between twentyhv and thirty-hve
years. The last Is somewhat more advanced In
life. They are part of q gang which the police
have been watching for some time past and who
are thought to have been concerned In severa
crimes heretofore, but have escaped detection.
The Vigilance Committee and the Mayor
OF San francisco.
PROCLAMATION TO THE CITIZENS OF SAN FRANCISCO.
We have arrived at an important crisis in the
civil and social condition and prospects of our city.
A voluntary association of men has been formed,
most extraordinary and irresponsible powers, aud
have undertaken to institute extra judicial pro-
ceediugs in forms not known to the laws. This
ISOLATION claims and exercises the right to inact
penalties upon those adjudged by them OF crime,
even to the penalty of death, and has publicly and
boldly inflicted that penalty in two instances.
They claim and exercise the right of omioiliary
vists, without any accountability, OF character
known ndar thark hayin risito rial0
vernments. The great and sacred writ Of habeIs
corpus has been rendered by them Intellectual, and
the authority Of the highest tribunal of the State
The circumstances in which the authorities are
placed, in consequence, seem to demand of me, as
the cons tituted chief magistrate, some action by
which the views and purposes of the city govern
ment, over which l have been called to preside,
may be indicated to the citizens, to the country,
and to the world
The people of the United States, of whom we
attributed their eminence above almost any other
people In the scale offeedOm and security in their
rights, to the fact that they live under govern
ment Of laws Of their own voluntary adoption.
The people Of California have taken, perhaps, .
more conspicuous place than those of any Of the
sister States under full recognition Of th 1t repub
lican medium of public authority and of common
protection.
The several departments of the only government
which any man among US can possibly acknowledge,
have been created by the constitution and la vs. to
which you, a. well as the public officers, have given
These departments have been committed to the
administration of men taken from among your
selves, and they have entered upon their trusts,
doubtless, with arm reliance upon the loyalty of
their fellow citizens to the constitution and laws
steady support In the exercise Of their respec
tive functions The obligation Of such loyalty on
the part of the people, is unquestionably impera
tive upon them as any of the obligations Of the
laws can be upon those who are entrus ed with
their public administration and the violation of
obligation the one side is as disastrous to the
community as the abuse or perversion of official
station can be on the other.
The idea that any defects in the law or any in.
competency of its execution, can be remeded by
voluntary associations Of citizens assuming sups.
riority to the laws, Is not only preposterous. but
implies an abrogaton of all law, and resolves So
ciety into state Of perfect anarchy.
The result is inevitably the same, however intel.
lgent may be the minds, pure the motives or tenn
porarly beneficial the acts ofthose who become SO
associated.
In a community like ours, where the institutions
ofgovernment have but just been established, any
combinations of citizens for purposes not author
lied BY law, and whose proceedings are not con-
trolled by law, or subservient to the support of
| constituted authority, can have no other than an
insurrectionary tendency throughout the common.
wealth. and must, to an absolute certainty, inaict
disgrace upon us, in the estimation of our country.
men in other parts Of the MON, and ruin the con-
6dence which 1t is Of FIRST necessity to prosperity
| to secure throughout the comm ,rcisl world.
L strong
est sense of official duty and BY every
| for our common welfare and public character, to
call upon all citizens to withdraw from such associ-
atoms, and to unite in a common effort to support
the laws, and to sustain prompt and energetic ad
ministration Of them in their proper application
and action.
In addition, deem the present a proper occasion
to announce in the most distinct terms, that sh all
which the statutes of the State and the ordinances
OF the city have made i'm perative upon me; and
that there may be no Misrepresentation in respect to
what these duties may be, have 10 call the a.ten-
tion Of all citizens to the provision Of the Act TO
regulate proceedings in criminal cases." Chap W.
however, appeal to the good Sc nse and delibe-
rate Judgment my fellow citizens to relieve me,
and the other public functionares Of the city, by
their common submission to public order, from the
necessity Of any application Of the requirements Of
| that act. G. ]. BRENNAN Mayor
Mayors Office, July IL.
War against the Whites By che Indians.
IRON the san Fl rr. .S,t 60 Courier July
| from the vicinity Of Trinidad. The Indians sec m
| TO have broken out In open war With tho whites,
Mr.. Heye and three others left Capt Randall on
Tuesday last, In an open boat, there being other
conveyance, until they reached Bodega, where they
chartered small sloop Mr. Heye proceeded to
Vallejo yesterday afternoon, for tho purpose of
endeavoriDg to obtain assistance from the Govern
or The following letter will be read with interest
TRINIDAD, June 30, 1851.
We are having great trouble in this section of
the country with the Indians They have attacked
many ranches on the road to the mines, aud killed
quite large number of persons. On the evening
of the 10Th, two packers were attacked by the In
dians, and one killed. The Indians were travelling
with them, and pretended to be friendly, and whes
about four miles from Young 'sranchc they attacked
them with knives. One Of the packers, Jacob Ben
der, was killed on the spot by one Iu-
dian, who struck him with large knife
on the neck, cutting the jugular Vein lie
had just strength to speak to his partner, (by the
name Of Webb,) to run for his fife. lie started
and one Indian after him, running until he became
exhausted, and finding that the Indian was gaining
on him fast, be turned md stabbed the Ind an wi,e
under the left arm, and contrived to make his
escape. IL was some time after arriving NJ the
ranchc ON tha ,ood hofo.a b. .. akIa ,S ....L