The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-06-27
u,o1 u,SALiFohsiA NEws.-The fles by the Star of the
Wess are At hand and furnish summary of ne-s
Tor Two weeks before the steamer sailed

CALFoaxIA NEws.-The fles by the Star of IN.
west are At hand and furnish q summarv of ne-.
ior Two weeks before the steamer sailed.
MINT OPERATIONS.
TVS twenty two days since the San Franc i.co
uint re- commenced operstione aud the deposI,s M
goa dust for coining during tha. period nave been
,I. .ns rs.e OF ,0OO per month. Refains and
oouog 10 going on af the rate of 800 600 per dav
| exclusive OF bare To coin at this rate reonirss
eecn day from sixteen to eighteen carbovs ~ nj.
| 1ic a1ic acid, each carboy containing ITO pouns.
ne utmost capacity Of the mint Is taxed to coin Al
tne rate already named, aud some of the men am
| pioyed are on duty eighteen hours ont of esch
swsn'y.four. The process of refining IL carried on
nehs and day ".
| =. The total amount of gold bullion deposited in
ire n mint Tor coinage since May s,h, 1855 II 12a
900 oe ounces; number of deposits lIs-,how
log an average of ITO 08 ounces from, each deoos,
sor.value of deposits S2 23O $50.
| - Inc reported defalcation OF Angus Frierson In
Decemoer last Is correct; his deficits amount IN
ABOUT SIT 600 Mr. Frierson was formerIv snan'
ciai manager of Wells. Fargo e. Co. a bantino and
express establishment in Sacramento
81 2Io,5s % went forward in gold dust to the
eastern states BY the sseamers Sonora and ITncJe
sam on the etternoon OF the 18th; 100 pss,ensers
also left the State by these ships; and s76 arrived
oD the same dsy 10 the John L. Stephens.
Ine gold mines Of ''ssn Francisco del Oro"
ABOUT so leagues back of Acapulco, are cre.ins
some attention from the speculative horizon of ,hs
San Ffancsco community '.o
cargo OF terrspins (soms weighing nearly a
quarter M OF afon has lately arrived 10 San Fran
chco. Ihey are from the Galapagos Islands
sail boat was capsz I'd on The l7th of Nav In
tne narnor, and man named 81. j. Mullen. cook
| 0t the United states cutter Ewing, was drowned -
as oooy % vas found aoaiog near Mare Island few
Gays siter and was decently inferred.
The schooner Julius Prinse arrived In Go, E-.r
CISCO hai aor on thesl7sh inst In so dsys from San
Juan Gal Sur. She now returns from her IN.
| socoossiui voyage to the Cocos Isands which exs
DeuttiOD aPpnniZad
digRluS purposes ~ S.
The great nugget Of gold which hss bsan on ex
nioiion st the banking insiiiu u,ion Of Jamas Kino
o. w mas been slaeltad down, AID nets the owner
In thsstIicals there hos been no re,na,k,b,,
change 10 this city. Since the grand eznlosion
among Tue opera troupe at the Netfopoiasn, that
.naare M asa ooen occupied by the Roussa ct sisiers
| anu M!ss davenport, Who has appeared IN two or
three ieadiGg parts At the American, .ae usual
exesilea stock company has been plss siur 10 nood
| houses and "Midsullller Nights Dream has 6sen
pr9nsAi 9at Ga scale OF grace and splsn:ior The
itaiiss opa'a troupe have opened in tho Id Union
tnsatre on theie own account, giving [. weekly
representations to fashionable audisuc.,s. The
San FrsIclseo Aipstrels. after a short u,iourn to
the mi2es have reeuruei and have rem e,ssd their
| laushsoia perloEmsaces. Madame Anri Rishon
| and BoieLa are giving coIcerts In the raiu e.
| Gen wool had returned to San FIancilco fro In
tour OF iEspf etion through Oregon aid Wash
| ington Territories He visited the towr of PORT.
| land. and wss received with firing of cannon ard
great rel oicing by the people,
| Inc sentence or death pronounced upon John
Blake for murder has been commuted by Governor
| Bgler to one years imprisonment In the State
| prison. He was to have been hung on the 5:h of
May.
| News has been published In the Alta California
OF the fugitive forgerer, G J. Hubert Sanders who
was last heard from at Honolulu en- route for Hong
Kong, In the bark Elvira Harbeck He was said to
| have very little money with him.
| WASHINGTON AND OREGON.
Politics were In an excited state In Washington
| and Oregon.
The Whigs of Washington Territory have nom.
| Congress. "
Capt John F. Miller, Democrat, has been su.
| pointed Quarter Master General of The Territsrv
10 the place of Chas. s. Drew, Know Nothing Whis,
secret association Is at work In San Fraucisco
a behalf Of the rebels, securing arms &c. Mr. Ca.
vaiho, the Chinese interpreter of the Recorder
Court has been offered bribe of four thousand
dollars, together with a per centage upon certain
commissions to bind himself TO the n,erests Of tbe
| secret association.
| SANDWICH ISLANDS.
The Rev. J. ID Strong, of New York, had ar.
rived out to take charge OF the Second Foreign
| Church, at Honolulu
The PoIynesian says that H. B. M. frigate Dido.
had left for Petropolowski, for the purpose OF
blockading that port.
NICARAGUA
Advices from Nicaragua are to the l6:h mat We
learn by private letter that the difficulty bet ween
| the American Consul at San Juan del Sud and the
government has been settled. II will be recollect-
| ed that great excitement created scms time
| ago 10 San Francisco, by the sudden departure of
the sloop-oi-war St. Mary's for San Juan del Sud,
| and it was thought that another Greytown affair
| was to come off. But the Californians was disap.
pointed.
TRAGEDY IN SOUTH CALIFORNIA.
At the village of Monte, twelve miles from Los
| Angeles, a terrible tragedy was enacted on the
13 b of May. On the OH, a man named William
| Paine disclosed the fact that man uamed Brown
| had organized band of men for the purpose OF
| robbery, which was then at Turner'S Pass. The
people of Monte then repaired to the Pass and ar
rested five men, four Of whom-W William Wat.op.
| William Hand, Adolphus Moore and Polo VII.
kerson- they determined TO hang, but afterwards
| celented and gave Them to the civil authorilies-
| The next night party went to the building Ia
which they were confoed, and took Hand and
| Wilkerson out to hang them, but they escaped
| after the rope was around their necks The men
| then returned to Moore, who was lying in bed,
helpless from wound, and placing q pistol at his
| head blew his brains out. After laceratiug Wat.
sons neck In attempting to hang him, they riddIed
| his body with bullets, and then left.
FIGHTING SoUTHERSRRs IN KANsAs.-The Rev
Mr.. Starr, whose twinkiiDg In Kansas, was extin-
euished In a hasty manner, on account of eight
defect in bis ideas on Slavery has been lecturing
at New York on the subject and attempting to i'm.
press upon his audience the utter barbarity of the