Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1855-03-24
LATER From CALIFORNIA.

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iorN' sunday nigh' IN seven days. ana SIX
hours from San Juan, with California dates per
steamship Uncle Sam to Feb 26lh, and Sg2,-
200 in snecis Tho l,uo, s,o,uer was do,,ir.
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lime oil saillng, Which makes the passage the
shortest ever made between San Francisco and /
New York-beine ooly 20 DAYS aud 0 hours. I
Wa ,ate the G,llo,,inc s,rorO,rv If III. NAVE
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Inc great feature OF Tue news, since Tue
sailing oil inc last steamer IS the failure oil inc
several banking houses When Inc news hrsl
came OF the failure OF Page d Baeon' OF 81 4
LOUIS, run commenced at once on Page Ia I
con " Co., when was Kept up all maj day'
ana over sloo'ooo were Withdrawn IRON me
pahk' Inc next DAY inc run ceased' ana maj.
'ers apparently were moving on as usual III
Tue morning OF the ssd' when ,heir BANK was
MOI opened the usual hour and shortly alier
hnndbills were sent all over town, announcing
mat ihey must suspend 1t seems mat qulie
deep run had been gong on all day, al Their
specie was reduced to less than Sloo,ooo, and
they feared to keep open any longer owing
ing 10 the fact that 1t was holiday, but little
business was done that day yet 1t seems that
over S2oo'ooo were drawn "ut during The day
from Adams Co. s. hat evening the steamer
arrived WIN ihe news mat ragei Dacoh " 20 S
ura''s haa all peen PAID ana II was lhen sup
posed mat The excitement and trouble were
over
lilt The upXt mOruluu Adams * In nuuuunC-
CD mat ihey, too, must suspend, and shortly al
Ter Wells, Fargo q TO- followed suit Two
small affairs called Savings Banks did the same.
and then came general run on all that remain
ed open. The greatest run was upon Drexei,
Saiher y Church' d. Davidson, and Lucas,
Turner q Co. Iallant x Wide and Sanders
x Brcnham suffered little from tue pane, and
Pliu oil 'heir ueposnofs rainier, COOK q w.
were mol anee'ed ny Tue run IN me ieas'' ou'
pad every claim as presented. Inns house
winch has been most merely assa'ied during
inc pas. year ivr partisan purposes ana every
means ooh Ia'r ana uhliir taken 10 impair It's
credit "hen me hour oil iriai came was found
stronger man any house IN 'he el'y' and aolo 10
Ienu neip'ns nanu 10 It's he'g"oo's'
on saturday the run continued though most
OF u'e s'hai' uepositors iiau wiihdta"n their DE-
posts on inc DAY before. various rumoFs have
peeh IN clrouia'ion relative 10 'ho auaifs OF Tue
different houses nui we can assure people OF
nothing more than has Transported Page, ba-
con "a. VIII resume, II Is sald' on The ss'h
their creditors haNing gwen Them an extension
on large amount oil uer lndeo'edness.-
wells, Fargo * Go. give strong promise OF an
early resumption ana Adams " 90, IN our
paper oil ms morning, MAKE statement 10 re-
gard 10 their aiiaHS, when represents ,hem to
s ee APE , 20 go on 5san u srh hlenfy Is
r. On tHr futn' the senatorial Convention ad-
Journed, sme die' by vote OF Us TO ~. Those
voting in The mlnorty were principally the
friends OF Dr. t'wln, and the majority compris-
cd Wings and various factions OF the Democ-
racy.
4 The news from tile Kern River is OF an ex-
citing character. The accounts from the new
ly discovered diggines represent The miners as
doing remarkably well, some say averaging $40
to $50 per day. The steamers for San Pedro
the nearest point of Decentralization for the
minos--go down crowded with passengers.
On the morning OF .he 18Th, the St. Charles
Hotel and Hillman's Hotel, in this city were
destroyed by FIRE loss about $4,000. In Ne
yada, sixteen houses were burned on the 10Th /;
and in Stockton twenty-five houses were de-
ssroyed by fire on the 2ls',
The Indian troubles IN the vicinity appear TO
be increasing Some ten white men and abou,
seventy Indians have been killed.
The Anniversary OF the Birth day of Wash
lng'on was celebrated IN San Francisco by a