The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-05-19
PUB1sHERs & pRoPRIEroHs.
NUMBER SO.
News from California,

1
We clip the following items from the Sar
Francisco Herald of April 5th
News FROM THE lNrERioR.-The Fund
Commissioners Of Sacramento have given notice
that the interest on the City Bonds due on the
first of April will be paid at the banking house
Of d. o. Mills Il Co
The late election for Senator in the Twenty.
second District resulted as follows: J w
Denver, Dem 497 Robert e. Stuart, {Whig J
362 John Ii. Harper, (Dem l5 From thus
II will be seen that Capt. Denver who contested
the seat of MIR. Harper, and which was sent
back to the people has been returned 10 the Sem
ate
A correspondent of the Union, writing from
Auburn, s1ys.
"The weather here for few days past has been
cold and unpleas SAINT, with an occisio al shower
of rain, but not enough to deter the miners from
again commencing to work the bed Of the Big
Ravine, from which the late freshe: drove
them. This ravine has already been worked
over three four times. but sill continues to
pay those who are engaged upon it from SIS to
$6 per day.
''The water from the ca al Of the |. and B
K. Co is now being used at Spanish Flat about
one mile from this village, and it is expected
that the miners here will have the benefit of il
in very short time.
ANOTHER SHOCKING MURDEn.-We are
indebted to Major Ross and Others, Of Knights
Ferry, for the result Of coroners inouest.
held by them on Saturday last, on the body Of
a man named John Telfair, at place about
three miles from Knights Ferry. Mr. Hubbard
testified before the Jury, that the deceased came
to his house in company with Mexican, for
fire to cook supper with, they having camped
about 400 yards from his house, on the evening
of the 25th inst. Next day he was hunting his
COW, and passing the camp, found the deceased
lying, dead, stripped of his clothing, except
shirt, and his saddle blanket spread over aim,
wound in the temple near the eve, and silk
scarf forcibly tghtened around the neck. He
also stated that the deceased passed his house on
the 24th, on his way up, with cattle.
The jury found that the deceased came to his
death by the nfiction of wounds and stranou-
lation, and that the Mexican vaquero was the
murderer.
Telfair, the deceased, was in the employ Of
Messrs. Ward q V'sher, Of Stockton, and left
this place, with drove of cattle, which he was
to have sold in the mines He is supposed to
have had $1,000 or $l4)0 with him Mr..
Vischer has been up the country, but has heard
nothing of the Mexican.
Teltair was from Schuylerville, Saratoga Co.,
N Y.-Stockton Journal
A man known as ''Jm Ugly was hung a
few days since by the people at Yankee Jim's
Diggings, on the dividing ridge between the
North and Middle Forks. rhe crime for which
he suffered was that of stabbng another man
(name unknown.)
TONNAGE OF SAcRAMENTo-We have been
furnished by Mr. John Requa, Harbor- master,
with the annexed statement Of the tonnage ofthis
port:
Amount of tonnage of Sail Vessels and Steam
ers arrived at the Port OF Sacramento from
May 10, 1e4l, to March 81, 1s52-Sail
vessels, 1929
steamers, 3l0,l57
Sac. O"'on1 Total, Tons, 33S,3e6
Two hundred and eighty Chilenos, all clad in
serapes, arrived in Sacramento on Wednesday