Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-02-11
CALIFORNIA NEWS.

The Legislature of California assembled at Bencia on
Monday, January 3D. The annual message of Governor
BIGLER was delivered to the two Houses Thursday The
actual amount of State Indebtedness January 1854 is
$300l 455. The amount of gold dust shipped from Ca
forna in 1858 is 49, 300 $685. than half the total
of exports of all the other States Of the Union
the estimated amount from the other States being in
1852 Sl54,93l, 147. The Governor recommends an
amendment Of the Constitution and biennial sessions of
the Legislature and estimates the total saving to the
State OF such with the reduction of the salaries
which he also recommends, at 1871, 700 annually. 1t
will also be seen that the financial condition of the State
with judicious legislation, is sound.
Considerable excitement caused in our city the
evening of the 4th instant by the Of hundred
and Chinamen who carried to the station
house. Information was lodged with the police that q
difficulty was likely to between the different Chi
nese residents and said that portion about
to force the others to pay The police accordingly
proceeded to place designated and made the arrest be-
fore mentioned Upon the examination il appeared that
Lodge of the Triad Society about being formed
sympathize with and aid the revolution in China They
were discharged
| On Saturday. January 9th, Judge Hoffman, of the
United States District Court delivered his opinion upon
the celebrated FREMONT claim, .Las Marposas" It
adverse to the validity of the claim This claim was
confirmed by the former Board of Land Commissioners
and appealed to the United States District Court It
will now go to the Supreme Court of the United States
for final action
The Of Sverstein Patterson has been decided
by the award of the arbitrator Silversten passen
ger on the Golden Gate from Panama to this port and
ordered him confined in barrel Patterson was fined
/ $1,000.
The usual number Of tragedies have occurred in de-
rent parts of the State Mr. Baugh, of the Merchants
Exchange of this city, shot last Tuesday and now
lies in critical condition. He fired upon by
Dutchman, who commanded do SO by his employ
er or partner, Mr. Chapman. It is not known what
the Of the attack 1t believed however to
have originated in dispute about land title
Our latest news from Lower California is December
18TH and is to the effect that the ranchcros had submit
ted to and asked the protection Of the Government
the New Republic This information furnished by the
fbusters however and may be taken with some grains
OF allowance. President Walker had issued very rdi-
culous proclamation in which he stated that warfare
seldom used among civilized nations had been used
against his Government if he and his pratical
dition were entitled to the usages of civilized nations
LOWER CALIFORNIA.
The buccaneering vessel the Anita had returned to
San Francisco The of her previous arrival ut
Ensenada the seat of government of the buccaneers in
Lower California, is thus given
The barque Anita had arrived with two hundred and
thirty men as additional force to the command of Col
Walker on the Goth instant and Immediately landed her
troops At this time the natives had fed and nothing
had been of them after the new forces arrived
The day after the arrival of the Anita xtyye men
ordered to march the town of Santa Tomas under the
command of Capt George A. Davidson who effected the
taking of the place without fight,
The BUCCANEERS LOWER CALIFoRNIA.-Col H. III
p Watkins, Vice President of the new Republic arrived
in San Francisco January 49, making the trip through by
land having left the camp of the Patriots the 18th Of
December. President Walker has issued proclamation
and decree establishing the pay of the War Department
Col Watkins states that the day before he left Santa
Tomas Major Emory, in command of company of ORA
had started in search of Mellendrez and that Capt
Geo. r. Davidson having taken Santa Tomas was station
ed with his command at that place. La Grulla was oc-
cuped by the company Of Capt Chauncey
The Colonel also brings the gratifying information that
the people Of Lower California had decreed Melendrez 20
be an outlaw and had solicited the protection the new
n,.l ,,lnl:s
were satisfied with the political change of the country
and had pledged themselves bear against the
new Government. The expedtonsts had not as report
ed appropriated any property without compensation
The FiLLIBUsrERs.-Tke spirit of fllbusterism seems
to have broken out afresh in Stockton The papers and
the telegraph bring stirring accounts Of private
meetings and public displays got up by the srmpahizers
of the new republic One of the papers, in noticing
secret meeting held at the Lodge Saloon Monday
ing, says:
'sImportant results expected but owing to the
necessity of keeping matters in the dark are not a
thorized to publish any particulars tending compro-
mise the parties concerned
eve hear from good authority that force numbering
eighty or ninety men to leave San Francisco mme-
diately in small vessel bound for Lower California and
that nearly three hundred more ready when
the means OF conveyance shall have been furnished
The editor Of the San Francisco Herald has received
the following letter from his Mexican correspondent:
PoRT OF MAzATLAS, DECEMBER, Z 1865.
Finally, the 2Sh ulimo, the inUiacJe fleet has left
this port consisting of three vessels I'll Guerrero Jaoui
and Desterrado, carrying three hundred men in all
sop has been sent in advance to reconnore the terrific
ny. Don Juan Vilea is commander of the battalion de
Sinoloa. i0A -
Gen. Yanez having been appointed Governor Of sinoloa
by order of Santa Anna, his predecessor Ex-Governor
Valdez, has left for the capital.
An order has arrived from the British Minister in Mex
leo for the British enof-war to seize the Caroline
wherever she may be found, and the Amphitrite imme
tiately lifted anchor to act in compliance "A Mexican
schooner just arrived reports to have seen the Caroline
aud another American vessel off Lobos Island
The day before yesterday troops had yet arrived at
San Bias, but four hundred men were expected from
the first vessel in port embark said TO Lower
California It is astonishing that we have no positive
news from the American libusterng expedition They
re oehesed % have sailed to the NORTH but where to is
natter of qnien sa6e TO us. n
Another correspondent from Mazatlan states a
The general opinion seemed to be that Lower Cafor
10 had been lost to Mexico forever" a