The Sierra citizen., 1854-04-08
ARRIVAL OF THE
Sierra Nevada and John Z. Stephens.

usiu, tut JONI IL. SlepnG1lS lrOu diEtuld,
and the Mayor 7ompkins from the South.
On Tuesday at 2 o'clock P. NJ, Lang
ton s. Bro. laid on our table files of At-
lantic papers of March 4th, brought by
the Sierra Neraea, which arrived at San
Francisco on the I'd inst.
An affray occurred on board the Sierra
Neuada on her passage up, in which the
second officer was killed by man named
Gardner.
The Sierra Nercda brought up 955
passengers, of which 10 were women and
l25 children. l09 women and 81 children
came on the John L. Stephens.
TIDE OF EMIaRATfoN.--Twenty-thr three
hundred passengers arrived at San Francis
co on the I'd inst. In the list Of passengers
by the John L. Stephens we observe the
names Of A. 7. Langton and lady, Miss
A. NJ. Langton, Miss A. V. Langton and
Mrs. G. Langton. Mr.. L. will be wei
coined back to Downieville by his numer-
ous friends, and we trust his sojourn in our
village may be long and pleasant.
THEATRICAL AND MUSICAL Kate
Hayes, Herr Mengis, the Bateman Fami-
ly, Miss Laura Keene and Susan Denim,
came ON the John L. Stephens.
Miss JULIA DEAN has accepted an offer
of engagement, and will shortly appear on
the California stage.
Wonder if we shall have the pleasure
ofseeing any Of these histrionic and musical
stars in Downieville during the coming
summer?
SACRAMENTO VALLEY RAILRoAD.--The
Sacramento Union says letter has been
received from Col Wilson, President Of
the Sacramento Valley Railroad, dated
February Goth, in which he says that he
will be ready to leave New York on the
9th of March. He had every thing ready
to complete twenty miles of the road
locomotives, passenger and freight cars,
&c, which he intended to ship before he
returned to this State.
CAPT. GuNN1soN's PAPERS RECOVERED.
The ST. Louis Republican says, that the
note books Of Capt. GUNNIsoN' party, and
all the instruments used by them, except
the odometer, had been recovered from
the Indians. Every Indian cencerned in
the massacre was known. After the mur-
der, Walker and his band had fought one
another, and split up. and Walker had
gone to the Navajoes.
that on the 9th of January, the mercury
in the thermometer was 20 deg. below
zero, and an the 10th, it was II degrees
below that point. Tremendous SHOWS had
fallen Throughout the last half of December,
and the snow on the mountains this side
Of the Valley was five feet deep.
HIGH PRcIcEs FOR CArrLE,SHEEp AND
HoGs.-The Scott County (Ky.) Import
ing Company lately held sale at George
town, in the State. A number of import
ed Yorkshire hogs were sold-ore sow for
$l50; another for $l60; another for $l00.
A Durham bull brought $l,525, and
another for $3.50. Cows and heifers rang
ed from S405 to ,S7l0. Twenty-Five
Cotswold sheep sold at prices ranging
from S75 to Sl25; Ten Southdown sheep
brought from $50 to 500 each. Three
Leicester sheep sold at SAT, $50, and S6O
st. LOUIS Republic.
Passage Of the Nebraska Bill.
The Nebraska bill passed the Senate
on the Sd Of March by vote of 73 to IA,
10 absentees. An efigy of Senator
Douglass was found suspended to the flag
staff on Boston Common, with the follow
ing inscription "Stepben A. Douglas
anthor of the infamous Nebraska Bill,
the Benedict Arnold of 1854"
A treaty has been concluded with the
Omaha Indians for all their land lying on
the Missouri river from the mouth of the
Platte River to Iowa creek. Mayor
Gatewood T has been sent out with full
power from the Government to treat with
the Ottoes, Missouris and Pawnees for all
their lands, commencing at the lower
Nemeha and extending up the river above
Council Bluffs, including the Great Platte
River Valley. The Nebraska Democrat,
published at Old Fort Kearney, says:
1--WE are authorized by Col. Gatewood,
Indian agent, to say that the Ottoes and
Omahas country will be open for settle
ment by the lst of May next
The Indians are said to be willing and
anxious to dispose of their land. The
Pawnees, one of the most savage tribes,
expressed their willingness to enter into
the treaty. The quautity of land bar
gained for, is said to be about 100000
acres.
A great freshet has occurred in the Ala
bama river, inundating the low grounds,
and doing much damage to the public
| works.
The Senate of Rhode Island, have con-
cured in the amendments of the House to
the bill aunulling the sentence of T. w.
Dorr.
At Hartford, Conn.,, on Thursday March
I'd, eighteen persons were killed and
twenty-five other badly injured by the
explosion of the boiler in a car mauufac-
tory.