Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-09-12
LATE FROM THE pAcIFIC COAST.

OF Oregon on account OF continued sickness IN
his family 10 Indiana. The Portland Times says;
He has performed his trust while among Us,
credtably, and TO the entire satisfaction, we be-
licye, of the men Of all parties; and he carries
with him on his return the kindest wishes and
regards Of the Oregon people, s-.,, .a
The prices of all kinds Of labor are reported as
high. Carpenters receive from four 10 five dollars
per day, blacksmilhs the same, day laborers from
TWO TO three dollars, and our farmers are paying
as high as three dollars per day for hands to
harvest. atq'
There are now eight steamers running on the
lower Willamette river. Oregon City is deprived
of a morning boat down, because the water is at
present too low to allow them to come quite mp
TO the regular landings. ~ bE \.
The Spectator says: " We were shown beau
tiful specimen Of fine gold yesterday, by miner
Just from Burnt river. He thinks those mines
will probably pay an ounce per day when worked
TO advantage He intends 10 return immediately
The gold resembles that Of Feather river, at Cali
fornia" 4,tssssrr.
The wheat now being harvested in Oregon is OF
the best quality. Beautiful weather for securing
grain. tF a.asg.tE sss,q
The Know-nolhing party have commenced an
organization i'm Portland al,
The coast interests are beginning to claim at
tention, and destined TO exert an important
influence on the future prosperity OF Oregon. Inc
Oregon fisheries will soon attract notice, and fur
nish lucrative field for enterprise. it
The governor of the Hudson Bay Company,
at Fort Vancouver, has received intelligence by
last mail that the governments OF England and
Russia had mutually agreed not TO modest the
trading posts Of either paton on the Pacific coast
DIRECT TRADE BETWEEN OREGoN AND CHINA
The Oyegonian says Captain N. Crosby, jr., long
identified with the commercial enterprise OF Ore
gon, will sail for Hong Cong, China, in the barque
ing the coming week. eve understand the brig
Cyclops is also being loaded at Puget Sound, by
Clanric Crosby, brother Of Captain Crosby, for
the same destination. Captain Crosby has re-
Gently made two voyages from Oregon to China
and back. He now loads two vessels for the Ce-
lestal Empire 1t is the intention of Captain Cros
by TO return by the way of Japan. and enter all the
ports that are opened TO American vessels, with a
view of learning the commercial advantages 10
be derived from trade between this coast and
Japan. 81 sia u
SAN Francisco, Aug. 1912 m.-The clipper
barque Mermaid arrived this morning from Hong
Kong, in thirty-fve days; brings no papers, but
learn that all the foreign merchants have been
compelled 10 leave Canton, and have gone on,
board men-of-war OF their respective nations.
Also, that two ships bound to California, laden
with Cinnamon, have been lost in the China seas,
with one thousand lives The Mermaid comes an
der sealed ORDERS aolich erpatns aoy size brings no
papers nor htters.-Cor. ~. Y. Herald.
SAN FRANcIsco, Ang. l6-1 p. M.--The bark
passage Of forty-four days from Hong Kong via
Bombay. She brings later news from China.
learn that a French officer of high rank came pas
semger from Bombay and immediately took passage
in the steamer 1chich leaves at o'clock for your
civ He appeared as il he had some important
business or dispatches, and was in great haste TO
obtain his passage-ib z -aa@ Vi. ihvii.s
The Herald says The mission of the French
officer may have something to do with the move
/ ID I,J mi; ataI IN,
the following Dispatch which we received yester-
day: ,g,.
aBoMBAY, July 90, 1S54.-The King of Ouda has
offered to the English government $4,000 infantry
and 100 guns. Russian agents are in treaty with
Cabul vs- #.'4 e5s4Ht5 s,a
The Friend of China OF the lst of July has the
following
eve have nothing authentic from the disturbed
districts between The Bogue and Canton, beyond
the fact that the large town of Toonkoon is also
in rebel possession. Canton residents express a
good deal OF confidence in their position, and say
the time for an attack is not come yet, The gov
or-general is more sanguine than ever, and
has decapitated as many as three hundred within
the last fortnight, we are told.
@This fearful amount of blood shedding though
performed with view TO strike terror into the
hearts OF those who threaten TO sack the city,
meets with no approval from the city residents.
When the rebels do take the city, the massacre
of government officers will be complete. The
hundreds OF thousands OF Canton men, women,
and children that were murdered by the Tartars
in 1882 is not forgotten, and they will be terribly
avenged. 5s.r
FROM Los AYGELEs.-Mr. Kirkpatrick, who has
lust reached Los Angeles by the ella route, fur
nishes the Southern ornia,iw with the following
particulars of the immigration, cattle, roads, In
dams, &c, on the route
n Il O. AutA fha lat
of April, 1854, in company with party Of stock
drovers from that section of the State. From San
Antonio 10 FL Paso the road is an excellent one,
the main portion OF the way leading over high,
dry, and gravcly table land constituting, perhaps,
the best natural road in the world. For Two hun
bred and fifty miles grass and water of fine quail
ity abound but for the last four hundred miles Of
the route, grass becomes scarce, and water is not
10 be found in sufficient quantities for the stock
drover. This Territory is at present infested by
perhnps the most bold, daring, and dangerous Of
all Indian tribes-the Muscalara Apaches. The
train with whom ] travelled was surrounded by
them and stopped on the road, and we had every
prospect of a bloody battle but, finally the diff
Guilty was compromised by our consenting TO trade
them tobacco for skins. A cattle drover from
Texas, who had preceded us, was not so fortu-
nate. | refer 10 Mr.. Hedges. Of San Antonio,
whose party was waylaid in a bad canon, known
as the Eagle Springs" being taken by surprise,
had two Of his men killed, and one hundred and
seyenty-six oil his cattle driven OH Dytne lnuans.
We learn from the Californian that repeated
experiments made ut the Salt Lake near Los
Angeles during the past week. indicated in no
! instance a yield Of less than 38t per cent, The
water is at this season Of the year constantly in
creasing IN strength, in consequence Of evapora.
ton. and being entirely disconnected with the
yea. By The 1st Of September, FIVE hundred
bushels a day will be manufactured, and by the
! 18th vessels can be supplied with cargoes.
ARRIVAL OF LIEUT.. BEcKwITH OF TIE OVER
LAND SURVEYING PARTY.-On Thursday evening,
| August OH says the Sacramento Union, Lent
! Beckwith of the overland surveying party, ar
rived in this city from Salt Lake City, via the
! Humboldt and Fort Reading, having LEFT the
former place on the 9th of May, and the latter on
| Tuesday last Lieut. Beckwth with his assistant
surveyors and attaches to the corps, consisting IN
all OF sixty souls, arrived at the Great Salt Lake
| City in November, 1853. In April Of the present
| year. the Lieutenant with his party went east
ward again as far as the Green river, on survey
ing tour. On the 9th OF May the company ieft
I Salt Lake, and struck of due westward, some
| forty miles 10 the southwark of the regularly
travelled California trail. About seventy-fve
miles this side OF the valley the party came upon