The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-01-13
CALIFORNIA NEWS SUMMARY.

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tie gold is Offering, and the price of dust has moi
| materially altered
| man named Robert Bruce was hung at Sonora
| on the 9th, fer the crime ofmurder
ithas been proved by experiment that te bacco oil
very superior quality can be raised In some por-
tions OF the State.
Mr. George 1Ianly, from steubenvle, Ohio, was
killed by the eaving in OF bank of earth
man named John Stephens, travelling In the
vicinity OF Marysville, attacked by two mount
| ed Mexicsns and robbed OF 81. 800 In gold dust
rich claim was struck at Caldwell's Garden on
| Shaws Flat from which $4,000 were taken out Ia
TWO days, and the claim afterwards sold for S5 900
me purchasers washed out CARLOAD of dirt which
yielded $3.50.
| B. c. Pratt. of West Lodi, Seneca county, Ohio,
was Killed by saw in sawinl on Wo.f Creek
| Sierra county
| The Hon. w T. Barbour. District Judee in the
Tenth District has been indicted by the grand iury
| oil fuoa county for an assault with deadly weapons
| upon the person OF c. p Stidger
| man named John Cavanagh who was stabbed
| at the "Nonantum House" ON the Mission Road
by VIM. Bay, has since died from the effects of the
wound.
Christys Mnstrels have made most successful
tour throughout the State.
| Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams continue to draw
| crowded houses at the Metropolitan.
big strike was made last week by a party of
| four miners at Caldwelrs Garden, near Sonora
| The lead paid two ounces to the pan On the lst
instant ST 900 were taken out
Tusk five feet ten inches in length and the
base twenty four and onehalf inches in circumfer-
ence, was recently dug up, twenty feet from the
surface, on Cape Horn Bar. and exhibited to the
Placer Herald by Capt Williams, of the Otsego
Mining Company. The tusk Is of ivory, beautiful
| ly grained. The Company hope to discover other
portions of the extinct monster.
| The shock OF an earthquake was felt In the city
and vicinity at 4 l-2 o'clock, A. NJ, on the 11th
MIR. Napier Lothian, the leader of the band at the
ball given to the San Francisco Blues, dropt sud
denly dead, whilst conducting the music. His death
was occasioned by discs of the heart.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Stark and Mr. Nea6e have been
playing at the American, in Hamlet, Othello and
| King Lear. They have succeeded in drawing
good houses.
The Russian ship Kamschatka, from Sitka en-
tered with cargo OF fish into San Francisco, ia a
| privateer manned with a crew of 100 men aad
lurhlshed with ten brass guns. She is said to Dc
taut looking craft, capable of seriously annoyiag
| the French and English merchantmen, she may
chance to fall in with.
meeting OF the citizens Interested in the Allan
| TIC and Pacific Railroad took place at the Musical
Hall, on the evening of the 18th. A committee of
twenty-five have been appointed to investigate the
pracucablity of constructing railroad from San
francisco to the State of Missouri
hre broke out on the evening of the l4fh at
the corner OF Market and First streets The Phee-
nix Ail1s, consisting of saw and planning MILL
turning establishment and sash and blind factory
were entirely destroyed Loss estimated at S930O
Snow ON THE MoUNTAINs.-The peaks of the
Eastern Slerras, says the Union, which some two
hloulns ago uOnneO tn6lf winter WalstcOate, have
now buttoned around them their white overcoats
or TO clothe our ideas in other language, are wrap
ped In their snowy mantes from summit to base -
The late rains In the Valley have proved to be snow
IN the mountains,
PoLYGAMY AND MoRMoNIsM.-Elder P. P Pratt
being in San Francisco, has thrown down the fol.
lowing challenge-in the way of discussion:
Resolved, That "Polygamy" Is not contrary to the
Constitution and laws of the United States-the
Scriptures, the laws of nature or the laws of God
THE SOUTH HELPING THE NoRTH.-The Howard
Association of New Orleans have voted an appro-
pr1ation of $4,000 for the relief the of poor of New
York This is the true spirit of christian charity.
IN the Slckly season, when the pestilence s.alked
abroad III the Crescent City the people of the North
nobly contributed from their abundance substantial
aid for the stricken inhabitants of the South; and
now, when an opportunity is offered, the grateful
South responds in similar spirit of benevolence
and liberality. 1t ia pleasing to reflect upon such
incidents.
MAIL DIFFICULTIES sADJUsrED.-We learn from
the Columbia Times that the Postmaster General
and the Charleston Railroad Company have settled
their differences, and completed an arrangement
for the transportation OF the mails on the road to 60
into effect on Monday next. The press generally
will rejoice this circumstance.
DEATH OF A SECRETARY OF STATE-Mr. w H.
Muse, of Easport, Miss, died in that place on
Tuesday last. He held the office of Secretary OF
State.
CHoLERA.-lt is stated in the latest accounts
from Havana that the cholera is raging in the is
land, and that large number of deaths had oc-
CURED.
The ball OF the Columbia Typographical Society,
in Washington, on Wednesday night last was an
elegant affair.
Leopold Walter was examined in New Orleans
on the 5th inst, on a charge of having caused the
death of Matthias Burchards, on the high seas, and
discharged
Dan Callaghan and Patrick Haggerty have been
arrested in New Orleans, on the charge of having
committed the murders in Corduroy Alley, in that
city, on the Both ult
STEAMBOAT DISASTERS ON THE WESTERN RIVERS
DURING 1954.-The Louisville Courier gives the
following statement of the number of steamboats,
destroyed during the past year, on the Ohio, Mis-
sissippi, Missouri and tributary rivers:
Number of steamboats, sunk, II; loss by the same,
S754 900; loss by ice to steamboats, and flats, $500
000 number of steamboats, burned %; loss by the
same, 81 ,3040 number OF steamboats, destroy ed
by collision, 9; loss by the same 1922, 900, total
steamboats, blown up, 10; total loss of property on
the Western waters by steamboat disasters g, ,570,
000 loss of life by same calamities, 355.
The tax OF Nicholas Longworth, Esq !, of CiDcia.
natl, amounts this year to thirty thousand three
hundred and twenty-eight dollars. That is the
amount he has paid into the treasury this year, as
tax upon his property.
From the Abstract of the Census, lately publish
ed, we learn that the three smallest places in the
United States are Harris, Essex County, Vermont
having population of eight; AyerilI, in the same
county, with population of seven; and Liberty in
Keokuk County, Illinois, with population OF
five.
Women never appeared upon the stage among
the ancients. Their parts were represented by
men till as late 1862 when Charles H. first en-.
coursged the appearance of women before the
public.
A FAMILY OF PUmpKINs.-The Litchfed Conn,
Enquirer, of the 4th inst, says that eighteen ripe
pumpkins. averaging In weight fifteen and q half
pounds, were raised from one seed, by A. L. Peck,
Of Sharon, the past season.