New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-05-07
Further California News.

Further California News
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The VIGILANCE CoMMrrTEE.-The Vigilance Committee
of San Francisco has deemed it necessary to georganze
between three and four hundred members were present at
the first meeting. The Herald says The proceedings
are necessarily secret and the measures in contemplation
will not beaivulged but confident that from this
day forth citizens will be secure from the mid
night attacks of thieves and burglars.
GooL,E LABoR-A meeting has been held in Sacramento
condemning the bill which recently passed the Assembly
permitting persons introduce foreign labor into this
State at certain price and for certain number of years
The STATE orFIcEs.-The Assembly has passed resou
ton directing the officers of the State to take up the
quarters at Vallejo Immediately after the adjournment
of the Legislature The location of the seat of govern
men for the next session of the Legislature question
OF considerable interest
AeRIcuLruRA-The agricultural prospects of the State
represented to be aterng On the Caaveras in par
tcular the crops are very promising.
MARysyILLE-The Marysvle Express states that
although individual losses severe still none are broker
In purse or in spirit and the flood has pointed out the
mannerin which improvements should be made to avoid
loss hereafter Arrangements already being made
rebuild two-story brick houses with foundations laid
cement At last accounts the road from Marysye to the
mines was in good condition.
MURDERS, ArFRAYs. Erc.-The Sacramento Transcript
says:
We are again called upon to record the preparation
Of the 18th inst Don joaquin Machada of this city was
killed by his wifes brother Vicente 0ras The particu
lars as near as can be ascertained, are follows
Deceased and Ordas returning from the house of
friend where they had been spending the evening with
some ladies' On arriving at their lodgings they started
to go to their sleeping rooms when for some cause de-
| wall SIN
thus Ordas drew knife and stabbed him in the side
nfictng mortal wound and almost literally cutting him
open The people Of the house attracted BY the
groans q the wounded man. and went to his assistance
but the assassin had done his work and when they reached
the spot had fled Machada expired the following day
The victim Of this foul murder well known in Los
Angeles of the most respectable of its citizens
for his amabe disposition and social qualities beloved
by large circle of friends.
DRowNEp--The Sonora Herald states that three men
named Callahan, Wilson and billiard were drowned on
the 18th of March, in attempting to the Sanislaus
in canoe, six miles above knights ferry. The Caave-
fas Chronicle says that miner named Alexander Dunn
drowned in the Calaveras at Esperanza on the Sth
instant. He has brother residing in the vicinity OF
stockton.
TIE MURDER OF VAN NEss--A writer in the San Diego
Herald that Isaac Van Ness who recently muir
dered in Lower California near relation of Judge
Van Ness OF ork and also related through his
mother to the Van Rensselaer, family of that State and
that his wife, Louisa Van Ness is the daughter of John
Rolls, of Kentucky, by an Indian Rolls is now
lead and his daughter is widow and orphan and
may well claim protection of the Government of her IA
her, and redress ut its hands.
The Shasta Courier states that twenty Americans have
been massacred by the Indians in Trinity and klamath
counties within few months. and nearly as MANY in
Shasta plan to meet this evil has been proposed by
Captain Denver the Senator of the District who recou-
nends organization Of minute whose duty it shall
be to turn out whenever required and be under the
ro of proper officers The organization to exist at such
places most infested by Indians and to consist of
small companies say fifteen or twenty according to
circumstances The County Judge some other county
officer to have authority to cali them out and fair com
pensaton to be paid for their services while actually On
.luty
occurred Il few days since at Yankee Jims Dry
Diggings between the Middle and North Fork of Amer
can river man called jim Ugly stabbed another per-
son in house Of ilfame, causing death The offender
was taken in charge by Vigilance Committee. and while
being conducted to place Of trial he stabbed in the
back Being placed upon cot, the wound was found
likely to prove mortal but the indignation of the popu
lace was too great to be restrained and he
and all placed under tree and swung up The of
the murdered man we have not learned.
AFR. McDermott was reported as having been shot
Atherton, about - miles from Stockton David A.
Davis who committed the deed has given himself up to
the authorities at Stockton
SANDWICH IsIANps-Snow's Commercial Circular of the
LIST inst published at Honolulu. says
Several whalers arrived here during the past month
and many of them have been quite successful in obtain
ing sperm OIL and far heard from most of the shps
that have been cruising to westward
tunate Sales have been made of sperm and polar oil dr
ring the month, the former commanding one dollar and
thirty cents gallon and the latter sixtyve cents Der
galon-purchasers buying for shipment to San Francis
COS
The papers filled with discussions concerning the
conduct of the American missionaries in the Islands, The
Weekly Argus attacks them viruleny, while the Polyne-
sian warmly defends them
The ship George Thatcher of Boston, bound Calcutta
was wrecked totally upon reef in the harbor of Hanalei
han Jan 3st Two schooners trading among the islands
were lost at nearly the same time and place
Business continues dreadfuily dull at Honolulu
Several of the Society Islands have set up for them
selves, de modo republicano.r
Queen Pomare had appointed of her sons regent of
Raiaea but before his arrival the people of that Island
with of their neighbors held council and chose an
hawhte their ruler for two years The repub
liean movement is likely to extend farther
Last advces state that quite fleet of small vessels were
waiting at Tahiti for cBrgoes of oranges for California