Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1852-01-08
Later from California.

The Cherokee arrived at New York on
Thursday, Jan. LIST, with the Pacific mails.
Her dates from San Francisco are TO Dec.
9th. The trip is the most remarkable on
record, having occupied but &c days II hours
from dock TO cock.
The Golden Gateis on her way with So
100000 in gold.
The general news from California is not
important. Extensive Lime stone and Mar.
BILE formations have been discovered on the
American river within thirty miles of Sac
ramento.
The troubles with the Indians in the south
ern part of the State continued, thus far nine
persons have been killed by them. The
rainy season appeared TO have begun in good
earnest.
Indictments have been found against Cap
tain Waterman, three of which are Tor MUIR
der. -fs .... ....i ....s-
The mining news is of a cheering charac-
ter, and the yield increasing. Business dull
Flour unchanged. Stocks quiet, and ten
dency downward. Dry Goods declining.
The principal subject of interest by this arri-
val is the alarming state of feeling among the
Indians on the Colorado and in the vicinity Of
San Diego, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, &c.
An outbreak has commenced among the In
dams of those districts, and is daily assuming
more threatening character. The enforce
ment of the tax laws among the Indians is said
TO be the ostensible cause of the rebellion, a
course to which they have been melted by the
lower class of native Caifornians, who are
known to cherish the most bitter feelings against
the Americans.
Volunteer companies were organizing in the
south to march against the Indians, and the
governor had ordered Gen. Hitchcock, of So
nora, TO despatch troops forthwith to the res
cue of the citizens in the disturbed Districts
He has also ordered down the detachment sta
toned at Port Oxford, aud would probably des
patch one or more companies of volunteers from
San Francisco at an early day. The Indian
chief antonio is reported to have three thous
and fighting men under him, most of whom are
well armed with rifles, and are expert in the
use of them.
| Dr. Hazencranft, one of the Indian commits
sioners, and who has recently been SO success
full in negotiating with the Indians of thu
north, was to leave San Francisco on the 6tt
of December. for the scene of war in the south
and hopes were INDUCED that he might bt
able to arrest the difficulties which now Sc
riously menace the whole southern section o
the State.
AT San Francisco, Sacramento and other pla
ces good deal of rain had fallen subsequen
to the LIST of the month, and the wet season ap
pears to have fairly set in.
| Capt. Waterman, of the Challenge, wa
brought before the court on the 4th, but waived
| an examination and was duly committed 70
trial upon three warrants for assault, and on
for murder.
The mail by the Golden Gate from San Fran
cisco on the 5:h, was the heaviest ever des
patched from California
The people are. locking anxiously to Cor
gress to make suitable appropriations for the
rivers. Various railroad projects are bein
agitated in different parts of the State. Sno'
has fallen to considerable depth on the mouI
tains.
Murders in the interior continue, thong
somewhat checked by the efforts of the Wig
lance committee.
.Ship,cy-eck of Sch. OakleaE-Forty Passci
gers Lost.-The following is from the Panau
Herald of Dec. Is: The bark Imaum, Cap
Batcheler, arrived at this port on Tuesday fro
San Francisco. A severe hurricane was exp
rienced on the night of 2Sth Oct, about OF
hundred miles S. L. Of Cape St. Lucas
Lost boat, bulwarks, sails, &c. October Boz
spoke brig Lowell, which had been in the san
gale, and reported having passed about hon
after a wreck, masts broken in three piece
keel out, and full of water, read name Oaklea
San Francisco. Sea too heavy to board her,
The captain of the Lowell supposed she ha
been out fifteen days for Mazatan, with aboI
forty passengers, all of whom found water
grave.