The American patriot. (Clinton, La.) 1854-1???, 1855-03-07

IO'Neil of New Orleans; John Smith OF St DO
mingo. VIM. Lamb Of Oregon, and Mr.. John |
son Of Mississippi, were MORALLY wounded.
Speaking Of the Indian disturbance in the
the klamath river, from Happy Camp to the
ocean, distance Of one hundred and fifty
miles, including those in Trinity Valley on the
Bald Hills and Red Wood Creek, numbering
in all about one thousand warriors, have taken
the war path against the whites, and unless
timely aid is Immediately extended the Trinity
Valley must be entirely abandoned by the
whites. 1t is thought that the Indians have
been preparing for this outbreak for the past
two years. The commander of Fort Jones has
so few men at the post that he is unable to
render any assistance in this emergency"
FROM SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
The Southern Californian gives the most
startling accounts CT the extraordinary rich
ness of the Kern River mines, and there was
an immense rush of miners to the rich dig
gings The San Francisco Herald has the fol-
lowing:
There are at present from 1900 to 1000 men
at work. The diggings at present being work
ed are on the surface, and they find It easy
work, averaging fifteen dollars day to the
man, and in the gulches taking out from fifty
w oiAsy uOAAsi PCI udy W tuc HAIL. u0 ulS.
lance from Los Angeles to Kern river is one
hundred and fifty miles,
THE EXPLOSION OF THE STEAMER PEARL.
The Sacramento and Marysville packet Pearl,
Captain Davis, exploded as she was approach
ing her landing place at Sacramento, on the
9th ult, causing terrible destruction of life.
The Pearl had been racing with boat Of an
other line called the Enterprise, and the OK
plosion is supposed to have been caused by
forcing heavier head Of steam than her boil
ers could stand The crew and passengers
numbered about lao, including some thirty or
forty Chinese, and it was ascertained that sixty
persons were either killed outright by the cx-
plosion or drowned after being blown over
board A Mr.. David Monroe, who escaped
serious injury, gives it as his opinion that the |
water in the boilers, which was of the kind |
commonly known as locomotive boilers had
got low and that the explosion was caused by
the sudden introduction of a large quantity of
cold water. There were also rumors that the
engineer was known to be incompetent He
was arrested.
FROM THE sANDWICH ISLANDS.
Dates from Honolulu to January 18th, three
weeks later, have been received
The funeral of the late king, Kamehameha,
took place on the 10th of January. The cere-
monies were Of the most imposing character. |
The procession was by far the largest ever
witnessed in the Islands, extending upwards of
half mile, and composed Of not less than
five thousand persons. Upwards of fiften
thousand of the inhabitants Of Oahu and the
adjacent Islands were assembled to witness it..
All the public bodies, and all in any manner
connected with the Government participated
in the ceremonies.
The next day Kamehameha ", made his
first public appearance as King in the large
native church. The late Kings will was read,
and the new King then took the following oath,
administered by Hon. VIM. L. Lee, Chancellor
of the Kingdom:-"I solemnly swear, in the
presence of Almighty God, to maintain the
Constitution Of the Kingdom whole and invo
late, and to govern in conformity with that
and the laws" i.
immediately afterwards. His Highness the
Kuhina Nui repeated the words "God preserve
the .king!" which were echoed through the
church with loud cheers His Majesty's royal
standard and the National Ensign were hoisted,
and royal salute fred from the fort After
wards, the King made solemn and eloquent
received by them with great enthusiasm
In concluding this address he says "On my
part l shall endeavor to give you mild and
liberal government but at the same time, one
sufficiently vigorous to maintain the laws,
secure you in all your rights of persons and
property, and not too feeble to withstand the
assaults of faction. On your part, shall ex-
pect you to contribute your best cndeavors to
aid me in maintaining the constitution, support
ing the laws and upholding our independence
He afterwards made an animated address to
the foreign-born citizens, in the course of which
he said; cannot fail to heed the example of
my ancestors, therefore say to the foreigner
that he is welcome-he is welcome to our
laudablc motive Of promoting his own inte- 1
rests, and at the same time respecting those of
his neighbor. But if he comes here with no
more exalted motive than that of building up
his own interests at the expense of the native
Ito seek our confidence only to betray it I
with no higher ambition than that of over
throwing our Government, and introducing
anarchy, confusion, and bloodshed-then is he
most unwelcome! I
FROM SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
News from Los Angeles represent that town !,
in hourishing condition. The miners on
Kern River were doing well.
\ tremendous wild boar with tusks eight
inches in length, was lassoed and captured
near Los Angeles. Crime Of all descriptions
prevails to great extent in San Bernardino
Mr.. j. +. Chavis had arrived at Los Angeles,
from New Mexico, with eighteen thousand
sheep, nearly all of them in fine condition
At the recent Mexican Presidential election,
CoDko A., ia, l.. c.