Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1854-01-25
TEL. EG.RAPHIC NEMs]
By the National Line.
rELRGRAPHEp NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
LATER FROM CALIFORNIA.
ARRIVAL OF THE NORTHERN LIGHT.

New YoRx, Jan. 24.-The Northern Light arri-
we'd this morning. and brings upwards of 800 pas
sengers and SS4I 3Sl in specie on freight and San
francisco dates TO the 3lSt, together with large
independent mail
The mail steamer Oregon left San Francisco or
freight.
Dates from Ensenada, Lower California. are 10
the 10Th. The accounts relative 10 Tue hIiionSters
are contradictory. The Town was oesleged from
the 5th to the l4th when during the night the fill
hbus'ers attacked the besegers, when the latter
fled, leaving :heir arms, horses, &c. The REIN
forcements. 10y the Anita were not received, but
were spoken off San Redo on the 2lSt, and proba-
bly, arrived at Ensenada OIL the 25th, when III i'm
mediate attack would he made on San Tomas
The California weather for the last fortnight has
been delightful. with but little rain. The miners
are dsappointetlg the watel being insufficient TO
fill the canals or wash in the small gulcheS. The
falmouth mines have been very productive New
discoveries have been made ON the eastern head
branches of the Sacramento.
The Pilot Creek Canal, twenty miles long, md
intended TO furnish water TO the best dry dIggngs
in the State, will soon be completed.
TIE miners III Shasta intend 10 eXpel the CHINA
men. Legislation is called for to define the rights
of miners and mining companies.
1t is reported at San Francisco that another YES
sci is hitting out for Lower California. There is
growing feeling against the fiillOusters and their
objects.
Nearly sixty-eight millions Of gold was last year
manifested at the Custom House. The grand to-
tai since the first discovery, is estimated at $780,,
100, 900, exported. Thirty five thousand pasSen-
gers arrived for the present yeai, against 10000
left.
A million and half of property was sold at auc-
ton at San Francisco on the 26th, at u considera-
BILE advance the estimate.
ID. S. Muhoney was elected Senator from San
Francisco i'll place of Brannan, resigned
Extensive works OF Notifications and harbor have
been commenced.
nnI.a Il th,al n
MetropoIitan Theatre, the last and most elegant
theatre in the United States.
Three daily papers are about to appear at Stock
ton. The prostitute Ida Brewer, the murderer of
Mary Lee, has been acquitted at Sacramento,
against clear evidence. The farmers sowing
great qualities of wheat The season is unuSu-
ally favorable and early. A singular mortality IS
raging among the beasts and birds.
The surveying party sent out by the Railroad
conventiont 10 examine the Sierra Nevada at the
head of the Stanslaus, have reported practicable
pass. All the Pacific Roilrond parties have arrived
and the engineers speak very lavorably Of the
Southern route, and the public generally favor
that route.
Lieut.. Parke started overland by the Gilla for
Washington.
Oregon dates are 10 the 24Lh of December. The
Legislature met on the 9Th. Ralph Wilcox, Presi-
dent OF the Council, u. G. Bishop, Speaker OF the
House The Legislature adopted memorial 10
Congress, praying for a speedy payment OF the
officers and soldiers engaged III the Rogue River
war. Tie papers are advocating the formation OF
Slate Government. The population is estimated
at $1,000. SD
The San Francisco Herald reports commercial
Affairs for the last fortnight, as goomey. The de-
mnnd from the Interior is vefy small, and impor
talion unusually heavy The receipts OF gold dust
has been greatly reduced. There had been nine
arrivals from the Atlantic ports with full cargoes.
Nearly all OF the leading staples had declined.
Dec. 29.-Gnllego and Haxui flour Sl2,75 10
SI3. Barley d cents per ID. Clean pork, half
bills, Sl4,I5. All provisions merely nominal:
Baltimore oysters ST per case. Wheat 81 10 81
cts per ID. Gunny bags l2t.
The Brother Jonathem connected with the Nor
theru Lghnt, which left San Juan IN the 18th at
midnight The Brother Jonathan passed tie
Sierra Nevada, going into San Francisco with New
York dates OF the 9th.
The Notlcrn Light came in contact of Cape
Hatteras, with the schooner airy Ann from Maine
bound for Wilminston. The schooner sunk, but
the crew were saved.
CoNsIaxEEs.-Du ncnn & Sherman S2l5,000
Exchange Bank $4,000; Adams & Co., s13l.0OO;
Drexed & Co., SIS, 900; Wells Fargo & Co.,sG6,
900; Hoge q Co., $4,000. To others. small a
mounts.