The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-06-11

| From California; Further ny the SteatiAe
Prone thens.
We ANNOUNCED yesterday BY telegraph tie arri
val Of the steamer Prometheus, at New York
from San Juan de Nicaragua, having made til
passage id eight days and three hours. She bring
advices from California to the evening Of the l6t
of May. four hundred and twenty three passen
gers, and SssciiT ,J00 In gold
The California papers are to the evening of tb'
10Th May, nine days and half later than those By
the Edorado.
Rior IN SAN FRANclsco-An election took plac,
in the fifth ward of San Francisco on the 10th o
May, to fill the vacancy in the Board of Assistan
Aldermen, occasioned by the resignation of James
De Long. Mr.. Lord, the pureer Of she Prone
theus, states that just previous to the departure
the Sierra Nevada riot took place in the ward ii
which several persons were shot, and number O.
others wounded with bowie knives
THE ARRAY AT SANTA BARBARA The steam.
err Sea Bird arrived at San Francisco on the 10th oil
May. She did not stop at Santa Barbara on her
upward trip, on account of the fog. When she
left the place, on her downward passage, every
thing was outwardly quiet, but many considered
it dangerous for email parties in the streets al
night, as threats had been made by two parties
against each other. The sheriff was badly wound.
ed and not expected to live. Mr. Dunn and Mr.
Stout were but slightly wounded, and were az
pected to recover.
FRoM THE MlNEs.-The miners in Tuolumne
county represented to be doing we'll, especially
in the immediate neighborhood of Sonora. Extern
sive tunnelling operations we'll under way,
come of whichare paying we'll.
The Sonora Herald records the finding of lump
of seven pounds eight ounces of pure gold at In
dian G ulch, on the 7th of May, and another piece
OF nine pounds on the 9th. The company who
found them are four in number, and are working
under the name Of Weems & Co.
The Stockton Journal states that a great portion
ofthe land on the northern bank of the Calaveras
river is still under water. -
The Columbia Gazette says that the miners in
that vicinity were never doing better. 1t was ex-
pected that the amount of gold realized during the
present spring and summer would be at least dou-
Bile that ever taken out during the same number of
months at any time previous The hills around,
wherever thoroughly prospected, were proving
rich, and in very few months tunnels and shafts
would be sunk in every direction.
MIsCELLANEoUs.-The Hon. P. W. Tompkins,
formerly member of Congress from Mississippi,
died at San Francisco on the 18th May.
Honolulu papers to the 10th of April, ten days
later, had been received at San Francisco.
The ship Robert Pulsford was sold at auction at
Honolulu, on the 9th of April, and realized, for
hull, oil. provisions and other property saved as it
with the cbronometer, sextant and other property
brought up the amount of the entire saeto So, $780,
the purchaser taking all the risk,
4 The House of Mobiles have ratified the nemina-
ton of Liholiho mentioned by the last arrival, the
adopted son of King Kamehameha, as bis successor
to the throne upon his death.
Warren Goodale, esq., has been appointed col-
ector of the island, in place of C. R. Bishop esq.,
resigned.