The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-08-29
Late from California
OF THE GEORGE LAW.
New YORK, Aug. IS

NEW YORK, Aug. %.
The steamer George Law, from Aspinwall
has arrived. She brings nearly $l,3OO,OO0
in specie.
The steamer George Law connected with
the Golden Age, which brought down SllO'-
600 in treasure. .,
News from the Isthmus is void of interest.
The electric telegraph across the lsthmus Is
finished. ~.
Adyices at Panama were from Valparaiso
to July l4th, Callao to July 25th, and from
Australia to June I'd. They contain moth
ing of Importance.
Intelligence from Acapulco states that
Alvarez is making his way toward the city OF
Mexico, with constantly increasing forces.
A gentleman came down in the Golden
Age, on his way to the United States, with
dispatches to General Wheat, who is said to
be in the United States recruiting, summon
ing him to return Immediately, with or with
out recruits
George H. Wendall, second mate of the
steamer Sierra Nevada, had been arrested
at San Francisco, charged with committing
robbery of $4,000 in gold dust on board
that steamer in February last, while on her
passage down.
Captain Folsom, one of the first settlers in
San Francisco. died July 20. He was ma
tive OF New Hampshire, and a graduate oil
West Point Academy.
By this arrival we have news of the des'
truction of Petropaulowski, Russian settle
ment in the Pacific, by the allied heet.-
When the fleet arrived off that port they
| found the town deserted and the Notifications
dismantled.
The Russian ships Anuoa and Dwina had
sailed some time previously for AMOR River
taking with them all the guns, stores, &c.
of the place.
The allied feet having RACED the town,
sailed for Sitka, from which port they pro-
coed to San Francisco to reft. The visit of
the allied fleet to Sitka was peaceful, as a
compact exists between the Russian and
British Governments exempting the place
from molestation, it being the depot for the
Russian, American and Hudson Bay Fur
Companies.
The allied feet, consisting OF the British
ships of war Monarch and President, and the
French frigates Eurydice and La Forte had
arrived at San Francisco.
The banking house of Hamlet Davis, at
Nevada, had suspended payment. Its liabiI-
tiles are large.
The sloop-of.war Decatur, from the Sand
Straits of Juan de Faea.
| The U. S. steamer Massachusetts, had ar
rived at SanFrancisco from a cruise.
| 1t is reported that developments of a Curl
Gus nature have turned up in the affairs oil
Adams & Co., in which Santa Anna is implii
Gated. His completely has relation to the
coinage of Mexican ounces. An expose oil
the whole matter; from one recently con-
nected with the house, will be made soon.
| The steamer Cortez arrived on July 90
Nineteen deaths from cholera had occurred
on board during her passage.
Robert Tevis. membe of the bonneville
bar, had been shot dead in duel with Hon.
Chas. Lippincott. The quarrel grew out Of
political matters.
The mining news is fattering.
The markets were moderately active
Flour is steady at $I3 for H1xall & Gallego.
Rio and Java coffee l9a3Oc. Provisions
are better. Mess pork, $22. Mess beef,
$2Oa23 so. Lard, 20c.
The allies at Petropaulowski, blew up all
the forti6cationsi store houses, public build
| ings, &c.
Amoor, whittier the Russians have pro-
ce eded, is said to be very strongly fortified
place. A dispatch from the French Admit
RS states that an allied feet has already pro-
ceeded thther from China.
The Pacific feet, after reftting at San
Francisco, would also proceed there, when
severe fighting would probably take place.