Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-12-27
TWO WEEKS
LATER FROM CALIFORNIA.
sI,5oo.ooo ON FREIGHT.
Difficulty 10Th the Allies respecting Russian
Dr.

Difficulty ,Oith the Allies respecting Russian
Prise.
LATER FROM OREGON AND SOUTH AMERICA
New YoRK, Dec. 26.-The U. States Mail
steamship George Law, from Aspinwall on
the night of the 10th instant, arrived here at
O'Clock last evening, bringing San Francis
co papers of lstinst, upwards of 200 passen-
gers, and about s 900, 900 in specie on freight
The George Law connected with the steamer
Sonora, which brought down to Panama up
wards of $780, 600 in specie on freight.
The U. S. steamer Susquehanna was to sail
from Acapulco 18th instant, for Philadelphia,
via Valparaiso and Rio Janeiro.
The news from California is of less impor-
lance than usual. The want of water at the
mines continues to be severely felt The sea-
son, thus far, has been unprecedentedly dry.
Considerable excitement was created in San
Francisco on the 10Th ult., by the issuing of
writ of habeas corpus to discharge certain Rus
sian prisoners confined OH board the Sitka,
one of the vessels recently captured by the al
lied fleet at Petropaulovsli The writ was
served upon the commander Of the Sitka by a
deputy sheriff, and the prisoners were to have
been brought before the Court on the 9th.
On Sunday, the 10Th, however, just after day
light, the Stka hoisted anchor, and sailed out
Va tlAO idiOOIB lloodply lOA '"iSOuNCt Io-
land. Preliminary steps were taken before
the Court on the following morning for issu-
ing an attachment against the officer in COM
mand, should he again come within the urls
diction of the Court.
Previous to the sailing of the Susquehanna
from San Francisco, a musician attached to
that vessel, entered a complaint against Com
mander Buchanan, for ill treatment. The
Recorder, before whom the case was tried,
decided that he had no jurisdiction in the
matter. On the same day civil suit was
brought before Justice of the Peace, and
damages were assessed for 500.
The pilot boat Dancing Feather had re-
turned from the wreck Of the Yankee Blade,
having succeeded in raising four boxes of trea-
sure, amounting to $4,000.
Wheeler, the pedestrian, succeeded i'll walk
ing one hundred and one consecutive hours.
Capt. Michael Powers, from Massachusetts,,
died recently at the American river, of star
walton.
Business at San Francisco has undergone
no material change. Every department of
trade appears to be almost at a stand-still, and
the ruling prices for many of the chief articles
of commerce are lower than ever before known.
The mines continue to yield abundantly,
and it was believed that the total product of
the year would considerably exceed that of
any previous year. A monstrous lump was
taken out by five men in Calaveras county,re.
Gently, and weighed one hundred and sixty
one and half pounds, valued at $3S,9l6.
Platinum is being found in considerable guam
titles on the North Fork of the Trinity river,
and is attracting much attention.
y new and shorter route from Salt Lake to
Carson River, by which the Humboldt is
avoided, has been discovered. The road is
well supplied with water and grass. 1t is 800
miles shorter than the Humboldt route.
OREGoN-Accounts from Oregon state that
several of the Indians engaged in the whole
sale murder Of immigrants had been captured
and shot
NEW GREN4DA.-Carthagen dates to Dec.
9th, report that the government troops under
Herraud and Lopez were then assauting b.
gotta, and it was expected that the city would
lie captured within day or two. In an action
near San Domingo, 800 of Gen. Melos caval-
ry passed over to the government. The reyo-
luton was considered about brought to close
SOUTH AMERIcA.-Parties of Americans
were returning from the river Amazon in
great distress, and all concur in stating that
the reports about gold, &C., were without
fou ndation