Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-02-28
LATEST NEWS BIZ THE MAILS.
ARRIVAL OF THE NORTHERN LIGHT
rourteen DAYS later fromcalifornia-

| seOo. 900 in Gold Arrired-Aeeidenf 10 steamer
| Golden Commencement Of me fna'd'
| Hostifities--Fatai Steamboat ErPfos'on-
| Capt Makers Nen Repubiie-1he MARKETS.
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ern Light arrived at half past o'clock TINS al
ternoon. having left San Juan on the 9th instant
| and bringing dates from San Francisco 10 the
evening of the 3lst ultimo, making the time
through in q days and 10 hours-tbe quickest
| trip on record.
| The Northern Light connected with the steam
err Cortez which reports passing the bro.ner
Jonathan going into San Francisco on the eve
ming of tho Ist instant, and the steamer Sierra
Nevada on the 9TH. off Cape ST. Lncas, bound up
The mail steamer Columbia left San Francisco
for Panama on the lst instant.
The Northern Light brings 400 passengers
and ss00,000 in gold on freight. The princlpal
consignees are Duncan, Sherman d Co SoOo,
900; American Exchange Bank, Sl20,oOO; Ad-
ans 81 Co. $4,000; Drexel 81 Co. S15,00o;
Wells, Fargo IL Co. S55.0O0.
Among the passengers are the Hon. Winslow
Pierce. Col. Nicely johnson and family, Judge
Tracy. and Lieut.; Maynard u. 5. N.
The steamer Golden Gate was stranded at the
entrance of the harbor of San Diego, ON the
morning of the 18th. She had previously brok-
en- her shaft, when ten days out from Panama
The passengers and mails were all saved. -Four
hundred of them took passage on the Southern
err and Golah, the latter arrived on the I'D ult.
The steamer Columbia was at San Diego, and 1t
was thought would get the Golden Gate off.
The Golden Gate got off on. the morning of
the 25th, less injured than was expected. She
was lying at San Diego awaiting the arrival OF
the steam pumps. The remainder OF her pas
sengers had proceeded to San Francisco.
The winter was unusually severe in California.
In Grass Valley and other places the~snow was
two feet deep.
In the mountains near Stockton, the rains had
been violent. The gulches were filled and the
milers busy.
The steamer Helen Hensley exploded one OF
her boilers while lying at the wharf at San FRAN
cisco, killing Thomas Norris, the Sd engineer,
and Hugh Fitzsmmons and badly scalding sew
era passengers.
II was falsely reported at San Francisco that
Messrs Adams a. Co. had failed. They paid out
to depostors nearly half million of dollars on
the 22d ult., and satisfied every demand.
The Shata Indians had commenced hostlities
in Klamath, and had attacked party OF whites
and defeated them. The whites had four killed
and number wounded.
Mining had been suspended in Coloma and
other places, ON account of the weather.
The sloop-of- war Portsmouth and the Govern
ment mail steamer were to sail from San Francis
co for Lower California to look after Captain
Walker and his party.
Adviees had been received at San Francisco
from the Walker expedition, to the effect that the
barque Caroline was captured in the Gulf by the
Mexican cutter Guerreros.
Late intelligence from Captain Walkers expe-
dtion states that matters were apparently gong
on prosperously. President Walker had issued
a decree dividing the Republic into two States
named respectively the State of Lower California
and the State of Sonora. Another decree changes
the name of the Republic from Lower California
to that of Sonora.