Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-10-30
MORE NEWS FROM CALIFORNIA.
Arrival Of the Star of the west.

New York, Oct. 27.-The steamship Star of
the West, from San Juan, Nicaragua, which
put into Norfolk on Wednesday night, short of
coal, has arrived, bringing $50 passengers,
and $SS0,000 on freight. She connected with
the steamer Cortez, which left San Francisco
on the afternoon of the 30th ult.
The British steamship Peytona had arrived
at San Francisco, from the Sandwich Islands,
being the pioneer of new line, with full
cargo, and 81 passengers. A number of the
latter arrived in the Star of the West, being
the first from the Sandwich Islands who have
ever arrived at this port after travelling the
whole distance by steam. She brought intel
ligence of the long missing Arctic ship Enter
prise, sent in search of Sir John Franklin.
The Enterprise went into the Arctic regions
in the summer of 1851, and passed through
Prince of Wales Straits; but finding the ice
impracticable, she passed the winter of 1912
in lat. II 35, N, lon. III 80 w. After
making every exertion to accomplish the OBJ
ject of her voyage, she passed the winter of
1923 in Cambridge Bay, Wollaston Land,
in lat. 60 N, lon. los 80 w. The winter of
1854 found her in Camden Bay, in lat. 20
n, lon. 95 80 w. The ice released the
vessel on the 10th of July last and she reached
Port Clarence on the 2lst of August She
lost but three men during the three years.
She obtained 10 news of Sir John Franklin.
The mines continue to yield a fair return in
almost every part of California.
Mining about camp Seco, in Tuolomne
county, had received a strong impulse by the
introduction of water through the new Aume.
The canal by which the waters of the South
Fork OF the American river are to be let into
Placerville and its vicinity, is completed.
A rich quartz and lead mine has been opened
at San Andres, on the North Fork of the Mo-
kelumne river.
A duel was fought in Almeda county, on
the 22d of September, by Rasix Bevins, an
employee at the TETON Indian Reserve, and
Capt. II. P. Dorsey, Land Register at Los
Angeles. Dorsey was slightly wounded in
the abdomen, and Bevens had his arm broken.
The official election returns for six or eight
counties had not been received. The MAORI
ties of Denver and Herbert over their highest
competitors for Congress, were about 1000
EACH
A number of the prisoners had escaped
from the State prison at Corte MADEIRA, killing
one of the guard named Powell, to effect their
object.
Neither of the Pacific steamers, Uncle Sam,
John L. Stephens, or Pacific, had arrived at
San Francisco on the SOth of September.
FROM SOUTH AMERIcA.-Later intelligence
has been received at Panama from Chill and
Peru, but the news is unimportant
FROM RUSSIAN AMER1cA.-By the schooner
Endoras, Capt. Seaman, at San Francisco, in
80 days from Ochotsk Sea, we have received
interesting intelligence from the Northern
Russian settlements, and from the immense
whaling fleet in that region. Although there
has been one ship totally lost, and several 9TH
ers severely damaged, as a general thing, the
uzzA L1..-
of years there has not been near so much oil
obtained SO early in the season, and the prob
ability is that at its ending, there will have
been more oil taken than i'll any previous
year. Capt. Seaman is unable to give any in
formation of the ship Monongahela, of New
Bedford, which was carried into the Arctic
Sea by the ice, in the fall of 1858. He states
that none of the ships he spoke or heard from,
had any intelligence of the missing whalers.
A Coon WAY TO FIGHT THE INDIANs.-The
following is an extract from recent intelligence
from Utah, to the date of Aug. 80:
The crops in Iron county look well, and the
iron works are advancing finely, and health
was good. In some ncghborhoods the grass
hoppers have done considerable injury to the
fall vegetables. The people Of Provo made
feast for the tribe of Indians, numbering 400;
killed four beeves, and furnished number of
biscuit, and then distributed large amount
of clothing. This is the way the people there
fight the Indians.
The rest of the intelligence is thus summed
up by the Council Bluff Eagle:
The mail train that left California ON the
9th of July. was attacked by Indians at Rest
ing Springs. Some of the mules were hit
with arrows, and one mail bag and some
mules lost in the fight. On the 9Th of Au-
gust, two sons of Allen Weeks were murdered
by the Indians, whilst out in kanyon after
wood Their scalps were torn off, and they
were otherwise shockingly mangled. The
murderers were brought forward by the chief,
delivered up, tried, and two were convicted of
murder, and will probably be hung.
A son of Phineas Young was buried to the
depth of II feet with earth and stone, by the
caving in of well into which he had descend
ed to remove filth from the bottom. He was
rescued without material injury.
The Mormon Temple now building is one
hundred and eighty feet long, by ninety
nine wide. The foundation is laid sixteen
feet below the surface of the earth, land is
built of solid masonry and sixteen feet thick.
A promenade of twenty-five feet wide is to be
built the entire distance around the building,
to be gained by number of steps. The wall
is to be ninety-six feet high, and the whole
building covers an area of 1850 feet of
ground The hewing Of the stone upon which
the iron railing is to rest upon the wall around
the Temple block, has been completed.