Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1852-01-31
FIFTEEN DAYS
LATER FROM CALIFORNIA,
ARRIVAL OF THE PROMETHEUS.
Nearly $4,000, eco in Cold.


The Prometheus arrived at New York yeser-
day forenoon about IL o'clock, with San Francis
CO dates to the LIST. inst.
She brings dates from Havana to The 25th inst.
$50 passengers, and $63 900 in gold in the hands
ofpassengers.
Money at San Francisco was but in little re-
quest and few transactions were on foot
he steamer Oregon sailed from San Francis
co ior Panama, on the LIST of January, with one
million three hundred and forty-fve thousand
dollars IN gald dust freight, besides large
amount IN the hands Of passengers
Among the principal consenments of gold are
Adams d Co., $500, 900; Page, Bacon g. Co..
$4,000; S. Davidson, ZAP, 900; Burgoyne g. Co.
100000. w.
CALIFoRNIA-PoliticaI affairs in California
seem to be IN very unsettled state, and the San
francisco Herald says that it would moi be sur
Prislng II they were 10 have two Legislatures, Two
sets OF municipal officers and two Democratic mar
ties
a meeting OF portion on the Legislature was
he'u al San Francisco on the last day of Decem-
per on the subject of the seat Of Government
"A letter was read from the Attorney General. in
"',on ne expresses The opinion that Vallejo is the
seat OF government as established by law
a resolution offered by Mr.. Parish, that dele
gates elect, then present, should assemble at VAL
,eJo on tie first Monday in January, was passed
by large majority.
The news from The Mines confined of the
same general successful character as heretofore.
Inc yield IN the various diggngs is very bountiful
since the rains set in,
:, Ado'Ph Bathoph was shot through the heart at
Gan francisco, IN dispute with one Alfred A.
Greene. GU a.
Bunker Hill Quartz Company have made OK
~ judgements Tor smelling ore taken from
OREGoN.-Advies from Oregon arc 70 Tho oad
nit The Legislature was still divided ~. to I ,Ha
seat OF Government and members were holding
separate sessions, one at Salem and the Other aI
oregon Clty. The Judges of the Courts were al
so divided on the subject ''e'e a.
Inc British barque Georgiana was wrecked ~
queen Charlotte's Island, and the crew and "a
american passengers were captured by the In
uiahs. Col Moses, the Collector, had desnatch-
ed an armed vessel for their relief
GB The Directors Of the South Boston fanatic
Hospital report that, of the 225 unaic paupers who
have been chargeable to the State during The mast
year, 1877 were foreigners, and Of the % Americans
not one was native Of Massachusetts The sun
port oil these paupes has cost them something over
$4,000.
10 James Montgomery, the poet, Sheffield
tEng paper says, has read the notices of his death
IN the American papers, with their ACCOMMODATING
e"'oges, with much satisfaction and what is more
read them without the and of glasses
ITEMs.-lt is reported that Hon Robert ]. Walk.
er has succeeded in negotiating the Loan for the
Central Railroad Of IlIinos,wth English canitaIsts
The city Of Wheeling has subscribed S5O.00O IN
the Louisville Railroad.
& WHAT A LuxURY.--The editor of the LYNN
Day state has been luxuratng over a box Of straw
berries grown IN house in that city, with the Their.
mometer at zero out fdoor
u1S The despots ofthe continent ayow that thew
mean to make 1t unnhabtable to Englishmen. In
would not be surprising if they shonld conclude to
hang every American who is caught in il.
+
NoGGs HAS CoME.-The eccentric and skilml
practitioner of Water Care cdr. Noggs,'' will adj
dress the citizens Of Worcester, upon Hydropathy,
at the City Hall, this evening. See advertisement.
CROWDED Our The report of the examination
Of the Dread Institute. 1t win appear on Mon
day.