The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-01-28
California News.
Nary.andcrs Killed---I Mountain,
OfGOll.

Among the deaths in California we find til
f. lowing: At San Francisco, WIN. Hurst, o
North Carolina, aged 40 years; at Nevada City
Samuel " Roberts, late of the U. S. Arsenal
Philadelphia, aged SO.
: In Navada City, David Miller, of Uppe
Sandusky, Ohio. In Sonora, MIR Haskell 81
Georgia. In Sacramento City, K Cocnburn
Of Brownsville, Pa, and r. wager, of Wayne
County, Ohio. In Downeyv.lle, J hn 81 Cas-
; sell, Of Manchester County, Pa In San Fran
cisco Col c. Cran<man, OF Tenn. At AcapuI
CO, on board steamer Monumental City II
Dl5hle, G w Pearce, aad A. H. Robbins
At Honolulu, w. II Christie, of Ere' Pa, son
Of DR.. Christie Of Pa
Henry Ogden, Of New York Frank Wilson
German, and Mr.. Conslaugh, a Swiss, were
drowned in the Fay OF San Francisco, on the
:'0th of N ,vember, IN attempting to rescue a
party in boat which had upset.
The stockton JournaIsof November goth,
records the execution of Frederick Salkmever
AMI Noah +. james, for horse stealing The
| Utter is said 10 be the son of deceased Baptist
minister in Illinois.
| The steamer Golden Gate arrived at San
Francisco in the remarkably short time OF thir-
| teen days and SIX hours from Panama
An expedition, composed mostly of French
| residents of California; had left San FaGcsco
for the Mexican Sta Of Sonora III barqne Cum
berland-not for purpose Of invasion but on
mining enterprise.
III .2M Californian says
''They going solely fer the purpose OF ex-
pnring and taking possession Of certain very
rich mineral lands known to exist in that coun
try, now overrun by the Apaches. These saw
ages being warlike, these gentlemen have asso-
ciated themselves together for mutual protection
and interest, having the complete sympathes
nd mis- of ha f,rt b,ir
cess, hundreds of whom VIII join them
VIGILANCE COMMITTEE IN SoNoRA-The
gong of the Vigilance Committee has been
sounding through the city for the last two
nights This Committee has fully organized
again, on account of terrible murders which
have been committed lately in the northern
mines.-Cor. Stockton Journal.
INDIAN WAR IN CALIFoRNh-Our da'es
from Los Angeles are to Oct %. We learn
that the American side of the Colorado four
Americans, driving sheep from Sonora, have
been murdered by the Indians. Lieut., Murray
sent an express into Diego, stating the clrcum-
stances, and has detained Lieut., Sweeney and
his party, whom Lient, hurry ordered to
relieve. The train had not returned, but was at
the ella, waiting an escort back. The hostile
Indians are estimated to be about 4 900 in num-
Der. The U. S. troops number only 20 or
men for duty.
It's rumored, and with some show of pr"ba
bilty, that the hitherto friendly Indians Of the
coast have an understanding with those Of the
ella, and that the collection oftaxes in San Die
90 county Of the Indians Is the cause Of their
hostility. We publish the following ntelli
grncc As il appears in slip from the o.fice of
the los Annelos Star
NovrsY, Nv "a, 5 O'Clock, P. M.-"We
have authentic accounts from the post at the
ella, mp to las Thursday morning Lieut.
Murray, with fifteen men, sent from San
Diego, to relieve Lieut. Sweeny, had arrived IN
safety
i lie writes that it is impracticable for Lieut.
r weenv to leave the post at present; that the
5 ,mas to the number of four hundred had sur
f ''lded their stockade, and that fer three
: I've nights the troops had been forced to fire
;. up. upa he Indians, to hold them in check. Also,
! lr Americans who had crossed the Col
is III tina large drove Of sheep, had been
j. NIT, III the Yumas.
i -" ,dian chief, Pablo, at Temascel, sent
an eAP.rAo Hon. Able Stearns, informing him
q various Indian tribes, with view
o. :, ~ - :" extermnate the Americans in Los
t anSelos San Diego. Pablo advised Mr.
: San,,,;s we his cattle from the llguna to
P patched to maxi saqusaJ cI IL e" 'e
% y o " ,ssions held consultation
I ~. - H. i've placed the direction of
% MT 90 ~ .e rs of Col. Magruder. A
l. organized, and will 20 ,ha c;tv =, < o,c,ock
e for Apoltan and Agus, ,1ante where the In.
70 dams are said to be il" 49,. - roholi;on
e me eoha'.'oH % nna sufficiently alarming
IS "Ofthe men killed at Il, . u9aen1e e, ITO
IN name of but one is mention ,r WHY 'Is Il
is supposed they had upw,s of soon sheen
&c with them.
$ The Star OF the 22d inst, ,,;sbos letter
N from ranchero which states 4 ;,f,rn,,t;on
nj is current among the friendly A.. ~ no
r South, of an intended invasion o. ,,laraao
= tribes.
u SAN DIEGO, Cal, November %, i, Con.
r. tlemen-I have Just time to say that exnress
It. from the Colorado has arrived, with tatohos
IN for the commanding officer at this place, ati,
IT. that the Yumas Indians have declaf .a,
ID against the whites-made three different Ls
nc on the detachment stationed at the MOI &c
~ the ella, and murdered party OF Amer .
with drove of sheep from chihuahua,
4. side of the military post.
The names of the party murdered, as far
heard, are Jamos Quay and Charles Hines,
Baltimore Washington Morgan, of Hard
'"' county, Md Wilson, of North Carroll
he Their bodies have been found, and it
MIA thought that two others Of the party have sha
the same fate. One had escaped the mas sa
and gone into camp to tell the story.
he PS -Leuts. Murry and Sweeney are b
at the Colorado now, with Is or 90 men.