Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-03-15
LATEST NEWS BY THE MAILS.
ARRIVAL OF THE NORTH STAR.
roRTNIGBr LATER FROM CALIFORNIA

ip from Aspnwall, with dates from San Fran
o;:eo to Feb. 10TH.
Summary OF THE NEWS OF THE FORTNIGHT En-
oO" DING FEBRUARY 10TH.
nj. ,,otical excitement during the fortnieb
i"p I'm inten O. The Bribery case, where,
nas palmer. of the Banking House of Palmer
MI. G. 20. was accused of having attempte,
CON senator Peck to use his influence to brinl
70 .be senatorial election, was closed before tho
on W a. ~, the Sd. Mr.. Palmer was acquitted b,
81 vote of &c Ia j.
YOU TLoatre and several other buildings n,
81 Inc .;iIa we're burned on the Both JANUARY
ra.al loss about $l50OOo.
lV a,,a proceedings of the filibusters in Lower
,.i rno have excited good deal of indigna.
Cahoa, ut San Dieg y, where the citizens were
tioh - ~ 70 get up a company to thrash them,
& pr9p 'pore to hold q meeting on the I'd.
anu CLor,kee fiat rumor has II That VEN OF de-
nv ouartz was found ABOUT SIX inches in
eoa which is unbroken ana mas proved ex-
dIanelJI, rich. From 200 pounds of dirt %
oeedlis e gold were washed. Considerable ex-
Poun ,ant has been the consequence. High pri-
ol'ein oan az. 900, it is said, have been offered
ces, U.s. claim or a share of it and refused The
ici 'n are French and Italians, VIII, have
.sor Guns loaded and keep guard.
IN the 18th the Portsmouth and the steamer
Columbus sailed to pay their respects to the fill
Amer r. Pierce. accused of having commit
,od forgeries to the amount OF S9,OO0 while en-
roged In the manufacture OF railroad ears in
Norwich, Conn, was arrested about the first of
tho month, but was subsequently discharged on
babeas corpus, there being requsition from
tbe Governor of Connecticut to detain him.
The clipper ship San Francisco, of 400 tons,
,05 days from New York, was lost under the
Ecbaroe of pilot upon the rocks at the entrance
! C the harbor, on the 9Th. Tho freight list of
nbc San Francisco amounted to $60,000 her
Zcarpo was valued at about 100000. She was
kold cargo and ship, at auction, on the 10TH for
sl2. O00 and her purchasers hoped to get her off.
Ehe had on board the acids for the San Francis
60 Mint, and their loss will seriously ncommode
he assaying department. She went TO pieces
IN the l4th. About $4,000 worth of cargo had
previously been saved.
/ A number of wreckers were about the wreck
IF the San Francisco on the evening of the 18th,
when gale came up and a number of persons,
simated as high as twenty, certainly ten or
Twelve, were lost. The ship subsequently went
Entirely to pieces.
| The Chinese immigration had again commence
3D. In the three vessels from Hong Kong, 800
5elestals have arrived.
SACRAMENTO.
| HORRIBLE TRAGEDY.-We learn from the
State Journal that two Americans and thirteen
Cinnamon were murdered in Shasta county, by
the Indians.
Two white memo named Guild, the other In
CALLS while On a prospecting tour, in company
With nineteen Cinnamon, were murdered on Nc
Clouds river, twenty miles East of Pittsburg
Shasta, county, by the Indians. They were
tamped and fifteen Indians came into the camp
frhe Indians appeared friendly at first but at a
word from the chief, they seized the guns and
an with them. Ingalls, seized club and struck
! he hind most Indian and knocked him down.
The Indians Immediately commenced firing on
Guild and Ingalls,, and also at the Cinnamon
six of the Cinnamon escaped, and came to Pitts
burgh A party started out Immediately, and
Found the body of Ingalls, one arm cut off at the
elbow and his head smashed up horribly with
stones. They also found the bodies of thirteen
Cinnamon three had their arms cut off; and all
their heads had been smashed in with stones
4 The body of Guild could not be found.
OREGON.
4 Dates from Oregon are to the Bird. The Indians
say that the weather in Oregon never was SO cold
before, and that the Americans were to blame for
n. Snow had fallen at Portland fourteen in
Echcs deep
1t is said that coal has been found in Polk
Bounty, -Four new counties have been Great
ed.
Further difficulties had occurred with the In
/ Ians on Coguille river. Some alleged outrage
fy the red men We're avenged by party of fifty
miners who attacked an Indian village and Kill
! ed sixteen of the Aborgines
LOWER CALIFORNIA.
Our latest dates from Ensenada are to Jan. 81
About the Goth, Walker addressed proca-
Rnation to his men preparatory to the march for
Sonora, exhorting them to fellow him to rescue
|the people from the tyranny of the Mexican Gov
eminent, and the atrocities of the Apaches. On
the 2ith, As men left his camp against his will
The two parties came near having an open battle
|and several officers actually ordered his artillery
men to fire the little field piece at the seceders
he man at the gun refused.
The 45 men arrived at this city, and report
that the food is of the coarsest kind, and there is
opay save Sonora scrip, and that private prop
erty Is taken without ceremony. The fillibus-
ters remaining, about $50 in number, were to
start for Sonora about the 9Th of Feb.
Iii reported that the fillibusters intend to
take liburoo Island, about 100 miles above Quay
\ and that they have made arrangements to
nave steamer as transport