Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1854-12-26
LATER FROM CALIFORNIA.
Arrival of the George Law.
One and a Half Millions of Gold.

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One and half Millions Of Gold.
NEW YORK, Dec. 2e.-The George Law ar
rived last night from Chagres, with 81 500, 900
in gold, and San Francisco dates to Dec. LIST.
The George Law reports the U. S. steamer
Princeton at Kingston, Jamaica, which port
she was to leave on the 18th for Aspinwall.
The Susqushanna was to sail for Philadelphia
in few days. The Mississippi was still at
Benecia
We have received our files of California
papers by this arrival, and select the following
items from the San Francisco News of the 30th
| Of November:
NEWS OF TEE WEEK.
The past seven days have rivalled in
dullness those which Immediately preceded
| them. The only occurrence which has even
produced ripple upon the current of our
| monotonous existence was the issuing, by
JLdge Norton of the Twelfth District Court,
of q writ of hobeas corpus, directed to the
| officers in command Of tho Russian prize
| ship Sitka, lately captured by the allied feet
off Petropolowski, and then lying in our har-
Dor, and commanding them to produce before
/ the Court the persons of two Russians held in
/ oouuuemeQC 8S prlSOueTS VI WAR, W avail the
judgment of that tribunal in the premises
The particulars of these proceedings we give
in detail, as follows:
On Saturday the 18th of November, Edmund
Randolph, Esq, distinguished member Of
the bar of this State, filed in the 18th district
court petition signed by N. Khitroff, repro.
| senting that said petitioner was acting in be-
half of one Johans Zakins Nystrom, and one
] Johans Rsmhold Blom, who were illegally de-
4 tanned in Of
| ment unable to act for themselves. The petit
toner further alleged that the said Nystom
| and Blom were detained as prisoner of war in
ship Sitka, then lying in this bay, and that
said detention was illegal, inasmuch as they
had been brought here from the British pos
sessions of Vancouver Island, whore they had
| been taken when first captured. They there-
fore prayed for a writ of habeas corpus, to test
their right to their liberty. Judge Norton
granted the writ and made it returnable on
| the Monday subsequent; and the habeas cor
pus was served on Saturday afternoon by
| deputy sheriff upon the commander of the
Sitka in person.
About 10 o'clock on Sunday morning, the
| SItka weighed her anchors, and, escorted by
the launch of Il. B. Ms brig President put
sea, without needing the writ which had been
| served upon her officers. On the opening Of
the court on Monday morning, Mr.. Randolph
introduced evidence showing the fact that the
officers of the Sitka had departed without
making return to the writ, and at his instance
the court issued certificate setting forth
| these facts, which it was intimated would be
forwarded to the proper department at Wash
ington, for such action as the government
| might think proper in the premises.
These proceedings as may be supposed, have
caused considerable conversation, and some
little feeling, in population as mixed as this
The newspapers have been busy in tho dis
i IF fha 70 nd n
priety and legality of the Court, toge' her with
| the conduct of the officers of the S5tka, have
given rise to many diversified opinions.
| With this exception, nothing has transpired
worthy of especial note.
STATE ITEMS.
On the Oath of November Henry Ii Monroe
was hung at Martinez, for the murder of James
| II. Gorden.
| The citizens of Ell Dorado county are con-
sidsring the subject of constructing railroad
from Placsrvile to Negro Bar, on the Ameri-
| city, where it would connect with the Sacra-
mento railroad, now In progress.
| b. ID: Wilson, esq, Of Los Angeles, has COM
menced the manufacture, from native grapes,
of wine similar to Longworth's Sparkling
Catawba.
| The Indians in the Cow Creek country,
Shasta county, have again assumed hostile
l
! 18th November, the people Of Churn Town, on
! the east side of Sacramento river, pursued and
killed number of the savages while making
their way to the mountains, with a drove of
stolen cattle. On the day following, the In
dams in large numbers attacked Churn Town,
and drove the whites from the place.
A cabbage weighing SO pounds was lately
presented to the editor of the Yreka Herald.
lump Of quartz gold weighing 1904 lbs
has lately been deposited in the banking house
| of Adams d Co., at Stockton. This lump was
taken out about fifteen feet below the surface,
in Calaveras county, by party of five French
| men. It is estimated to contain about 80 per
| cent. of pure gold, and is valued at over
| twenty six thousand dollars.
| Jack ROarke, the man who killed Horing
was foroibly taken from the sheriff of Maripo.
So county. by citizens, and publicly hung on
the 25th instant. Roarke was gambler and
had the reputation Of being o desperate and
bad man.
Commander Buchanan, of the steam frig-
| ate Susquehanna, was arrested and taken be-
fore the recorder on the Oath November, on q
complaint of some of the crew for alleged
NAL treatment. Upon hearing, the case was
dismissed for want of jurisdiction. On the
| same day a writ of arrest was served upon
| Commander Buchanan, sued out at the in
stance of one of the musicians employed on
board the Susquehanna, in a suit to recover
damages for assault In the latter case Com.
mander Buchanan was mucted in damages
| to the amount Of one hundred dollars which
he Immediately paid.
| Mrs Mary E. Woods was fined by the re-
corder fifty dollars for oowhiding, in publio
billiard roem, deputy sheriff named James
| 0. Richardson. Henry Morgan and Alexan-
der Rooney, for aiding and abetting in the
assault, were fined at the same time, each, one
| hunarad dollara