The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-08-19
CALIFORNIA Items

Woolly, without piovOcalion, killed a Mr..
Martin. He had scarcely committed the act.
when he was dispatched by party of stran,
gers.
correspondent of the Sacramento Union
writes that man was killed by the Indians
near Canon Creek. He was found IN his hole.
pIe reed with nine arrows, and his head broken,
IN with his PICK. Murders and robLeIies are
matters OF every day occurrence in tsIis SEC
ton of the State. Fifty-seven men are said 10
have been killed, and rObberies TO the amount
OF twenty thousand dollars committed within
q short tine.
The u. ;. sloop of war, ST. Mary's, which
left San Francisco with the sixteen ship
wrecked japanese sailors, arrived al Hong
Kong, China, on the 2d of MAY, and immedi-
ateiy joined the American squadron, consist.
ing OF the steam frigate SusQuehanna, Sara
toga, and Plymouth, at Macao, whence tn :,
Chlna papers say, they would at once sail for
Jeddo.
Captain Nathan Lord, of the Gov. Dana.
was Killed by the accidental discharge of a
pistol IN carpet bag, which he was CARVING
on shore at Sacramento. Capt. Lord was from
Bangor, Maine.
1t is said that an ordinance will, probably, be
adopted by the Stockton City Council, reGuir-
lug the owners OF dance houses TO close al
midnight. Most of the affrays occur AT those
places after II o'clock.
An unfortunate ARRAY occurred in the Ell
Dorado, between man named Fields and u
Mexican, which terminated in the death of the
latter.
Signora Biscaccianti, the popular and de-
IIghtiul GrIIste, gave another concert at the
Jenny Lind the atrr, on the 18th ut. most
delightful programme was presented.
The purchase OF the Jenny Lind theatre
by the city, has been enjoined by the District
Court, on an appeal taken from the order of
the Court. The difficulties in The way of the
contamination OF this scheme are accumulat-
ing, and the probabilities most strong that
the whole m alter will fail though.
A bag. containing $1,000 in gold dust, be-
longing TO Mr. Byron Benton, a trader, at
Mormon Guich Tuolumne county, was stolen
from tt wagon, a few days since.
The number OF houses in San Francisco, at
the present time, is four thousand three nun
dred and thirty. This, at an average of about
seven persons TO each house, would make
the population OF the place. about thirty thou
sand.
gentleman by The name of Wood. was
robbed of the sum of 1920, in $50 and $50
pieces, at the Bassette House, on the 14th Of
July: by young man named Charles h. Stew
art, from Philadelphia, and last from Illi-
nOis.
james S. Owen, a resident of Stockton, and
we'll known in California, died on the route
from San Francisco to Honolulu MIR. Owen
emigrated from Washington city to Corpus
Christi in Texas, and after the Mexican war
went TO California, being among the first set
tiers there from the States.
On the Sth of July, the San Francisco Her
aid published eleven days later intelligence
from Europe, and eight days later from the
United States received via New Orleans, Vera
Cruz, City OF Mexico, and Acapulco, in ad-
vance of the mails; the first occurrence OF the
kind since the possession of California by the
Americans.
The biack man, Wash Rideout, who shot
the proprietor OF the Bellevue House, below
Nicolaus, was hung, by mob at Nicolaus on
the 20th June, at about dark. RideOut had
been given up to the authorities, under the
promise that he would be tried Immediately,
and was placed under the charge of the sher
III. jury was called. the District Attorney
prosecuted the case, in due foim. the prisoner s
counsel replied, and the case was given 10 the
jury. While the jury were deliberating, and
before il was know what their verdict would
be, an excied mob-ut least, one of the pro
| mnent men in which was considerably under
, the influence of liquor-took the prisoner from
the sheriff, run him about quarter of mile
! below the town, threw a rope over a large oak
| lImO, and stretched him up.