Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-10-13
The California News.
From the San Francisco Herald. !

GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
The Chinese residents of this city got into
civil war On the eth inst, in which good deal
Of salor was displayed and some heads broken.
1t appears that the cause Of the disturbance
nroso from the dreadful cnmity existing between
the several factions, growing out of long stand
ing fcud, IN the Celestial domlnions. The pc
lice captured many OF those engaged in the bat
tie together with large quantity Of unique i'm
PIGMENTS OF warfare used on tho occasion. No
lives were lost during the engagement.
The mining streams are now at their lowest
stage; and tuning companies are mostly at work
III the rivers bed. Many of these are DOING well.
although few extraordinary reports haNe'ronChed
us There has been for the last month great
scarcity of water in the dry diggings mud but for
the canals eoursing through somc of them they
would all be abandoned until the winter rains set
in. Mining intelligence generally is as Favorable
rs usual.
The weather has been unsrasonoby cold do
ring the post fortnight, aud the nights really
cold However, we may reasonably anticipate
considerable warm weather before the close OF
October.
Tho health of the city is excellent and no
signs of epidemic rs yet Physicians and under
takers have little to do in this community.
On the night of the llth inst, Peter Nceder,
formerly of Albany, shot and killed Jas. Cnmp-
bell, of New York. Both parties came to CAlifor
MIA with Ste,enson's Regiment in 1917.
News from the mines continue to be of very
encouraging description; and the interior papers
talk as if the miners in their different localities
were satisfied with their average gains. In the
Suothern mines the season is represented ns be
ing one of the most favorable for river and bar
digging that had perhaps ever been known there.
BY sea the chief emgrants hive been Chinese.
Every ten days or so,somewhere between 500 and
! 100 of these people arrive Mt san franciscu.--
| The late eamor against the racc has almost died
away in our city. In the interior, however, it is
still occasionally heard pretty loudly repeated.
of the 10000 Cinnamon supposed to be among
us, about $4,000 are said to be in the condition
virtually of slaves, or poems to their more
wealthy conntrymen.
At Monterey. an ailrav occurred in dance
house, when three men one an American, and
| the other two paniards--wore killed. An Off
Ger who had attempted to arrest the rioters was
! shot by n Californian. and died almost immcdi-
atcly. The shooter was himself dangerously
wounded by another shot, and il was believed
| that his wound would prove mortal The mob,
however, could not wait for their revenge. They
| burst in the murderer house, hauled him from
! his bed, tried, convicted, condemned and hanged
| him, all under the advice of Judge Lynch within
| au hour or two.
.'udge Lynch has likewise been busy in Contra
| Costa. In our last steamer summary we mem
! toned that he hanged two foreigners at San An
tonio, for cattle stealing, Since then the people
in that quarter and at the Redwood have been
putting several residents through strict eX-
| animation, ; to their connection with the I'M
| known cattle thieves. No hanging, however,
| has taken place.
Daniel c. Hall and his wife have been indicted
for murder, on a charge of intanticlde. The cir
! eumstances of the were mentioned in our
| summary.
| Cant r. Home of the steamer Euudaiunp com.