Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1849-1856, 1852-01-01
California Ncus
TWO WEEKS
LATER FROM CALIFORNIA

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The news from the Interior is iavora-
bic To the mines and 10 The trade.
The markets are dull with "a dcclin-
ing tendency, thougt no quoIable differ
cnce can be noticed.
From Oregon; the troubles between
the whites and the Indians have been
brought 10 close.
Our San Francisco papers arc to the
lst inst, half a month later
The most important intelligence ap.
pears TO come from the Southern Sec
ton of the State. We copy from tho
Alta California -
Our dates from Los Angeles are to
the 22d of November.
We learn tha, on the American siJo
ofthc Colora 10 four Americans, driy-
ing sheep from Sonora, have been mur-
dcrcd by the Indians. Lieut.. Murray
sent an express into San Diago, stating
| the circumsta tanccs, and has detained
Lieut.. Swccny and his party, whom
Lieut.. Murray was ordered to relieve.
\ The train had not returned, but was at
the GIla, waiting an escort back. The
I hostile Indians are estimated TO about
! 1000 N number. The U. S. troops
number only 90 or 25 men for duty.
/ 1t is rumorcd and with some show Of
probability, that the hitherto friendly
/ Indians OF the coast have an understand
! ing with those Of the Gila, and that the
collection Of taxes in San Diego county
of the Indians is the cause Of their hos
tilly.
We puhls! the following intelligence
l rs il appears in Il slip from the Office OF
the Los Angeles Star:
MONDAY, Nov 2Ilh, O'Clock, T. NJ.
/ We have authentic accounts from the
/ post at The ella, up TO last Thursday
morning. Lieut.. Murray, with fifteen
men, sent from San Diego, to relieve
! Lieut.. Saccny, had arrived in safety.
He writes that it is impracticablc for
Ii. Swccny To leave the post at present;
that the Iumas, to the number of four
hundred hal surrounded their stockadc,
and that Tor three successive nights tho
troops had been forced TO fire upon the
Indians, to hold them in check. Also
! that four Americans who had crossed
the Colorado with large drove Of
sheep, had been killed by the Yumas.
The Court Of Sessions held consul
tl,ion this morning, and have placed the
d recIiJn of matters in the hands OF Col
Magrudcr. A company Of twenty-five
mounted men has been organized, and
will leave the city at O'Clock for Apol-
ilan and Aqua Calicntc, where The In
dams are said to be in state Of rcbcll-
ion. The condition of affairs is sutfic
ienlly alarming to require active meas
urcs of defence.
OF the men killed at the Colora do fer
~, HE name Of but one is mentioned. a
MIR. White. 1t is supposed they had up
ward Of COCO sheep with them.
FRuM THE BorNDAKY COMMISSIONERS.
a Sonorcnian just arrived, reports
tina, Gen. Garcia Ccndc, with 50 troops,
the escort of the Boundary Commission,
was at Tuson on the 20lh October, and
would move next day iowerds the Gila.
TIis surposcs the boundary Commiss-
toner's to have been at Touson at the
! date above mentioned.
The Star Of the 22d inst. publishes
/ letter from ranchcro, which states that
information is current among the friend
| " Indians in llic South, Of an intended
| invasion hy the Colorado tribes.
SAN DIEGO, Cal, Nov. 22, 1851.
G. NrLEMrN-l have just time to say
tina, an express from the Colorado has
| arrived with dispatches for the comman-
ding officer, at his place, stating that
/ the Iumas Indians have declared war
/ against the whites made three differ
! cnt attacks Oh the detachment stationed
/ at the mouth ol the Gila. and murdur
ed IL party of Americans with II drove Of
sheep iom chihuahua, this side of the
military post. The names of the party
/ murdurcd. rs far rs heard. are Jamcs
| Quay and Charles Hines. of Baltimore
Washington Morgan, Of Hartford City,
| Md; w Wllson, of North Carolina
| The Stockton Journal Of Novembct
20 records the execution Of Frederic
SaIkmcycr and Noah T.. James Tor
horsc-stcali"g. The latter is said TO be
The son OF deceased Baptist minister in
Illinois
Some new and rich discoveries Of gold
had been made in the Mariposa district,
of Whirl Il corrcsI ondent Of the Stock
tom Republican gives the iolowing ac-
count
am just from Bear Valley, where
thry lave discovered, as you have
heard the richest dIgeugs ever found
in Mariposa country, and as believe,
the richest in California. Ii is stated
and believed that there have been two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars taken
out orthc principal hole opened.
Ii was ciuht by ten and fifteen lect
deep. They are taking out the rock,
quartz dirt, gold, &C.. and keeping u To
be worked ~ some future time. Tho
gold Is very fine, aud mixed with dirt
AMI rork-roticn or d, composed quartz.