The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-05-27
THE DAILY DISPATCH.
Friday Morning, May "a, 1883.
CALIFORNIA NEWS.


By the arrival of the steamer Union, at New
York. from Aspinwall, we have late news from
California. The largest of the recent fires in
San Francisco occurred on the 25th of April
and destroyed property to the amount of $21,-
$50. We select the following additional news:
THREE MEN EXECUTED men were
executed at Sacramento April 28th, for mur.
der. Their names are as follows: Thompson,
is 25 years old. He was born in Southamp,
ton, England, and he's parents now living
Stewart was born in fhe city of Philadelphia,
is but 90 years old and has mother living
there now; has been in this country about
two years. Barney Ackerman was 10 years
old the day previous TO his sentence; he was
born in Lancaster Co., Pa, but went in his
youth to Oswego Co, N. Y, where his parents
now reside; he came from New York city to
California about a year since. They are all
resigned to their fate. and in fact, convinced as
they are of the certainty of death, they are de.
sirous of their end. They all exhibit marked
signs of repentance, and have been very kind
ly attended by Rev. o. G. Wheeler.
Another account says that with the excep-
ton of Thompson, they appeared as Indifferent
as if they were going to horse race. Stewart
and Ackerman smoked segars until they
mounted the scaffold.
The Marysville Herald gives an account
OF a affray between two men at Rich Gulch:
One of the men attacked the other with
knife, and endeayored to plunge it into the
neck ofhis opponent, who was unarmed. His
opponent tn ew up his arm and received Sc
we're but not dangerous wound. He succeeded
in knocking his assa ailant down-took the
knife from him, and in the language of our
informant, ''cut him to pieces" ills wounds
were considered beyond cure.
Three men near Diamond Springs recently
took tut $14O0,the result of five days sluicing.
The CEINEsE.-The Calareras Chronicle
says, our Celestial friends are on the move
regular stampede has taken place. From
the Northern part of the country they have
taken their departure in numbers during the
week. and docks Of them have passed through
town to join the line Of march. Their destina
ton IS said to Re somewhere on the South Fork
of the American river.
The salmon fisheries in California are at
tracing considerable attention. A letter from
Sacramento of Apri 20 states that the yield
for two weeks had averaged 800 per day. On
the Saturday before the letter was written,
22l4 were matchmaking the total number in
sixteen days 14,2l4, which, averaging twenty
lbs. in weight, gives total of 127 tons.
The Shasta Courier describes gathering
of about thousand friendly Indians in One
Horsetown, for the purpose of celebrating the
anniversary of some noted event in their
history:
They were painted and dressed up in
every conceivable fashion of the fantastic and
horrible, and danced and howled, and other.
wise made night hideous, for some six or eight
hours "bY Shrewsbury clock" After which
the squaws indulgedin sumptuous repast of
broiled beef CUTS, and the warriors partook
heartily of an abundant layout of chemuk,
composed of pulyerzcd acorns, grass seed,
and preserved worms. They then good hu- :
moredly retired to their peaceful holes in the
valleys that they love, away up in the hills
Hiu Indians.
An Indian thief who was caught stealing
soma property near Cow Creek, was shot dead
with arrows by order Of his chief, Numtari
mon.
The Californian thinks there is great deal of
unnecessary fear exhibited about the objects
and ultimate result of the expedition hich it is
supposed Count Raousset de Boulbon is pre-
pairing for Sonora. 1t having been stated that
ten vessels were in preparation in the harbor of
San Francisco for this expedition, the Califor.
MAN remarks:
lfthe Expedition is a reality, it is the duty
of the Collector of San Francisco, 10 cause il
TO be prevented though for our part we would
prefer that he did not find out that there was
such an affair under consideration until after
I NJ n do mt IL -.
reason why Raousset de Boulbon and his men
should not be allowed to do the first fighting
with the Apaches and cow them out of the
way, 80 that the Americans can settle peacea.
bly, about the mines, and work Meir claims
and raise their crops without being continual.
ly harrassed by the Indians. By the time the
French have whipped the Apaches, our Gov
ernment will have purchased the entire State,
and our citizens can then take peaceable DOS.
session.
Among the deaths in San Francisco we oh.
serve the name of J. A. Cost, of Virginia, ag ed
42.
The following is the report of the San Fran
cisco Flour market, for the week ending April
%:
Fiour-The market continued much de.
pressed until Tuesday when a speculative eff.
fort was commenced, and prices rallied raate.
rally. Parties entered the market. and bought
up some 5000 bbls. Gallego and Haxall, in
lots, at SO, ,75a$l0 per bbl. In consequence of
which holders became more firm, and the lat.
ter figure was refused at the close. Yester
day there was an animated enquiry, which.
however, resulted in the sale of but some 1900
bbls Gallego and Haxall, in lots, at $40 ,5Oa
SlO75. and about 400 bbls. mixed brands, un.
ms pected, at So per bbl.
From the mineral districts we hear Of occa-
sonal theft. and other outrages both on per.
son as well as property by the Indians prob
ably induced by want Of the necessaries oflifs.
The Cottonwood Indians had become very an
moving to settlers in the neigborhood. A par
~ went out TO chastise them; battle was
fought, in which 10 or IS Indians were killed.
A new city called "Crescent City" has re-
Gently sprung up on the Pacific coast, about
two hundred miles north of San Francisco
Crescent, City is expected to become theen.
trepot for the extreme northern mines. Ii Is
being rapidly settled up.
FIRE.-A large warehouse, in Howard
street, Baltimore, occupiedlby Newcomer and
Stonebraker as -four re, was destroyed by