Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1854-10-31
TWO WEEKS LATER FROM CALIFORNIA.


broke, =, Ia DR.. Wake. Of Chesterfield.
TWO WEEKS LATER FROM CALIFORNIA.
NEW YoRk Oct. 31.--Thc steamer Star of the
West. from San Juan bound To New YORK put III To-
Norfolk on Wednesday nigh for supply Of coal and
sailed again for New York on Thursday morning.
She had IN boari about 600 passengers, about W ot
which arrived here Yesterday morning III the steamer
Georgia. The du.es from san Francisco are 10 the
lst INST.
Elijah Walker. formerly of Shenandoah county,
Va, died at Nevada, Sept. LIST.
Mnior General Wool LEFT his headquarters at BENZ
cin the 9th of September, on tour "l Inspection
He intends visitn. the northern portion "i the de-
partnen uf the State. His present destination Is
Fort Reading.
Recorder Baker Of San Francisco, having plead
guilty 10 four indictments charging him with not pay
ims weekly certain moueys which came into iis
hands Recorder of the city, hhs been sentenced 10
pay tnr ot 81 on each Indictment.
The California Senate will stand is antl-electionist
democrats IL bogus democrats. nnd wings. United
democratic minority -. The wings gain four Scna-
tors this wear aud lose two. The House will consist "i
untclcclon democrats 81, bogus democrats I'D, wings
81 and Independents two. In ull, democrats i3whlgs
and independents 81. Democratic minority 9--on
Joint ballot -. The vote OF III" ant-clccohlss on
Joint ballot is .i9--oi bogus democrats 2'.
Nlr. and Mrs. Barney Williams and Colonel FIRE.
mont had arrived at San Francisco i'll the steamer
California.
The Nevada Democrat learns that the crops on the
Spring Valley ranch were damaged 10 Inc amount pi
Si,OUO BY a late frost.
The trial of Daniel &. Hall and Mary 4. Hall, for
iniantcidc, alleged to have been committed Oh the
lS;h of June last WAS attracting much interest Gt San
Francisco Mrs. Hall acquitted just before the
steamer sncl.
Mrs. Sarah Pellet graduate OF Obcrlin Institute
in Ohio, and "f the m"!cru female rciormers, Is
| lrcturmg in San Francisco.
GREAT MASSACRE BY THE lSDItSS lN SOSoRA.-
| The san Diego Herald has the following account
furnished by Mr.. Livingston who had arrived IRON
| the Colorado:
| Henry Livingston, to whom we are indebted f"i
| the following important items of Intelligence from So
nora arrived in this city Sunday last, accompanied
| by Mcssrs. John Stein and Samuel Simon. during
the two duvs' STAY ui Mr. l.. at the crossing o iht
Colorado report was brought in to the effect that
company of immigrants, composed ot hily pcrs"mS
all from Texas, were murdered near the li'nos IL
lagc, by band of Apaches, OH the 3lst ut August
There were several women and children III the train
who, it is feared, doomed 10 IL more horrd tate
All the cattle, 6O in number, together with the pr"H
sons were carried of by the Indians, leaving the wa
CONS in the road.
This news was brought By n train which was at the
time few hours travel i'll their rear but winch nap
pilv escaped attack. Near Tucson, about the sil'
iilic Il party uf twenty Americans were eating thc
dinner when band OF fifteen Indians made a dcscen
! upon them, and cnTled OIL seven ni ther hhcS
horses without shot being fired by either purity, ri
| though the Americans were well armed, ouhuilocI
ed them aud witnessed the outrhS" ~
Another party few miles the other side OF Tucson
were attacked. and one American killed and twenty
seven horses taken. The parties before mentioned
were all from Texas. The Apuches are bccomn!
more troublesome aud more formidable each day, a'
almost every train which enters their rang" will b'
more or less harasSed Ey them.
! We find from our exchanges that the mines art
yielding very satisfactorily in all sections OF til,
State. A c"tcniporary says that in the Southern
! mines 'hc season is one of the most favorable tol
river and bar digging that perhaps has ever been II
the country. The early time nt which the snow dis
appeared from the mountains, and the consequent low
stage of water in our rivers, has laid bnre nnumcra
Die bars with their rich treasure, which have hereto
fore remained in their natural security from the in
| roads of the pick and shovel"