Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-03-18
FROM CALIFORNIA.


following summary of events between the leaving
of the latest date -
The news from the interior has been of unu-
| sual interest. The Indians on Dry Greek have
kept the neighborhood in high state of excite
ment and alarm on account of their bold robberies
| AID evident hostility. Some brisk fighting has
| occurred between them and parties of the
| whites went out to chastse them. In these en-
counters the indians behaved with great courage;
several of the whites killed, and
occasion were compelled to retreat, leaving the
enemy masters of the field. Reports from the
San Joaquin Valley to the effect that Fort
Miller has been attacked and that several persons
| are missing in that vicinity. The Indians think
that the Government of the United States has not
acted in good faith with them in failing to carry
out the stipulatons of the treaty, and they com
plain that the Americans have cut off their
supplies and reduced them to state bordering
on actual starvation.
Many murders have been committed through
out the mining regions, and daily accounts aie
received of outrage and robbery. There has
been great excitement 10 Calaveras county, aud
general expulsion of the Mexicans. band
of Mexican marauders have infested the neigh
borhood, committing all manner of enormities
The robber Joaquin is at the head of these des-
peradoes and has become the terror of the coun-
try far around. The miners have assembled in
force and commenced systematic search
Joaquin has euded all attempts to capture him;
| several of his gang have been taken and hung
| The entire Mexican population has been driven
| from San Andreas and the Forks of the Gala
| veras. Mass meetings have been held and reso--
| lutons passed approving of the work of extermi-
nation. The utmost CONSERVATION prevails among
| all foreigners.
The weather throughout the mines has been
| generally delightful, and the miners are mostly
doing we'll. The small pox has been prevalent
in some parts of the State.
| Very extensive canaug operations are going
on for the purpose of supplying the gold regions
with water. There is every reason to suppose
| that the approaching will enable the mi
| ners to make amends for their late inactivity.
Some beautiful specimens Of rubies and eme-
raids have been found ic the interior, and also
magnificent diamond OF the first water
The murderers of the late amented Lit. Col.
Craig were executed at San Diego the 3lst.
January. The celebrated Yuba warrior Pasuual
was present.
Benicia has finally been fixed upon as the cap
itol of the state.
The Governors recommendation of an extern
sion of the city front has met with the entire
condemnation of the municipal Jvernment and
OF the citizens at large. A committee has been
appointed by the Legislature to investigate the
matter and evidence is now being gathered on
the subject
Miss Catharine Hayes is absent for the present
on tour through the interior. The prize ticket
for her concert at Sacramento sold for $1,000.
A Frenchman, PANIED Lemantour has applied
to the Land Commissioners to be confirmed in
his claim of an immense tract of land, comprising
within its limits goodly portion Of the city of
San Francisco.
THE RoBBER JOAQUIN.
The papers before us are nearly filed with
accounts of rourdare ond 40 ons
by Mexican named Joaquin, of whom we find
the following account in the San Francisco
Whig:-
{ Joaquin was born in the Villa de Catorc, in
the department of Jalisco. He is aged about 35
years and has ranked among the most crafty
and daring gueras of Mexico. lie is chief of
q notorious band OF robbers now infesting the vi
cnity OF the city of Mexico, and though living
In California, has regular chain of communication
with his associates in his native country. He
has been known to enter the capital cities dis
gulsed as atriar-has been arrested several times
but through the experiences and influence he
welded among the sodiery he has been dis
charged.
He is about six feet in height, and of immense
muscular strength; is well versed in the use of
arms and in disposition cruel and sanguinary.-
He has dark sallow mplexion, and during the
| Mexican war was known to wear a coat of armor,
burned many ranches, and has resided in San
Francisco. He has frequently obtained informa.
| ton of Mexicans leaving California with money,
who have been logged and robbed by detached
| portions of his band. In some instances they
have been robbed on their arrival at Mexico
the news of their departure and the sums of mo-
| ney they had about them, having been forward
ed by means of the associates living along the
load. joaquin belonged to the band of guerril-
| las commanded by the famous Padre Jurata, who
was captured and shot during the Mexican war.
| tits alleged that Joaquin wears coat of mail,
which is bullet proof, beneath his dress, and that
lie has several times been struck by balls but has
thus far escaped unframed. His escape is pro-
baby more owing to uncertainty of aim than any
potency in his armor.
The Sacramento papers of the 18th of Februa-
ry contain long account Of an unsuccessful pur-
suit OF this robber of which the Alta California
makes the following summary:
On Friday last, the citizens of Jacksonville
brought in the dead hody of Mr.. Lake, butcher,
Of that place, and the body of Chinamau. who
was wounded by pistol ball. 1t was not then
known who had committed these outrages. On
the next day, Saturday, three Cinnamon were
killed between Suffer and Jackson, distance of
some four miles. The driver of the Stockton
stage and two passengers were killed on the same
day by Joaquin and two others, supposed to be
Mexicans. Three men were shot and the hor-
ses taken from the STAGE
On the same day, the same parties drove some
fifty Chinese from a camp in the neghbourhood
and carried away or destroyed their tents. On
| the Thursday previous, Joaquin rode through the
village of San Andres, at quick gaop, and shot !
| three Americans as he passed through the streets
Joaquin must be one of the best shots with a re-
volver in this or any other country nearly all
these men were shot through the neck. The
whole band, it is supposed, consists of about
sixty men, all of whom are thought to be Mexi-
cans.
letter from Jacksonville, dated 18th inst,