The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-01-22
From the New Orleans Picayune, l3ih.
LATER FROM CALIFORNIA.
ARRIVAL OF TIE PRUMETHEUs.

22d ult, a fortnight later than that previously
received by telegraph from New York. We
are favored with a summary Of news items
by her polite purser, Mr.. N. b. Hart.
; The Prometheus left New Orleans on the
Goth ult, and arrived at San Juan on the Sd
inst. The Northern Light, Capt. Tfnkle-
paugh. arrived there soon afterwards from
New York. .,-ss...,.a. ~
There were i'm port at San Juan, the u . s.
frigate Columbia, Com'r. Wilson, bearing
the broad ipennant of Com. Newton, of the
Home Squadron.
Col. Wheeler, U. S. Minister to Nicaragua,
and family, landed from the Columbia on the
9th inst. under a salute Of fifteen guns. He
will remain at the house of Mr. Fabens,
American Consul at Greytown, untu the
war in the interior is over.
H B. NJ. sloop- Of war, Daring Capt. Napier
and II. M. steamship Dee, Capt. Parker,
were also in port.
Nothing further had been heard from the
interior. Gen. Canal, of Chamorro's army
had gone up the river on the LIST, with the
intention Of attacking Virgin Bay. The
two parties are now about equally divided.
AT San Juan, everything was quiet. Il
The rainy season was over and the health
of the place was good.
| On the 9th inst. the Columbia weighed
anchor and was toward out of the harbor to
an ofing, by the Northern Light. She then
set all sail with good breeze, and was soon
out of sight.
Passengers arrived from the Pacific on the
evening of the same day, and both steamships
the Prometheus and the Northern Light
passed The irigate Columbia, which, in return
| 10 salutes fired from the ships, showed elegant
l..h, Ill
delight of all who witnessed them.
The Prometheus, after being one day out
met with heavy norlherly gale which lasted
till within about two hundred miles of Balize :;
but she has, notwithstanding, made the time
from San Juan in five days and twelve hours.
The time of the passengers by the Prone
theus, from San Francisco to Balize has
been only ninteen day aud twelve hours.
The steamship Northern Light carried to
New York 100000 in treasure. The Pro-
metheus brings SIT 700 for the State Bank
of Louisiana.
The San Francisco Herald, OF the 22d says:
| The continued absense of rain is beginning
TO be severity felt by all classes of the COM
munty in the State. The miner, the ogri.
culturist, the merchant, the brakeman and
the mechanic are all experiencing the de-
pressing influences Of the continued drough,
which it is feared will continue more or less
throuhout the winter season. Money is
consequently getting scarce, as there no
remittances from the interior. The banks
ask per cent, lin some cases 3i) for dis
counting unexceptionable paper, and out
siders on the street are paying from 5 to z
and to 10 per cent on prime signatures.
In stocks very little has been doing during
the past week, and prices for the most part
remain the same at last quoted.
Transactions in real estate have been very
limit d, having been almost entirely con-
fined to the usual periodical sales by auction.
No material change has taken place in
commercial affairs, and matters generally
are expected to remain at a stand still until
after the holidays.
Price of Gold, SIT 4o@I7 so. Mexican
dollars and ounces command the premiums
previously mentioned.
i Exchange on the Elatern Ststes 3psr mt.
| The same paper publishes q telegraphic
despatch announcing the destruction of half
the town of Vallecito by fire on the night Of
the 9th.
/ The authorities have been busy endeavor.
ing to put dow houses of -ill-iame kept by
the Chinese. They have met with rather a
curious check in this proceeding, however,
mus reported oy the Herald.
They were brought up for sentence, whe m
a variety of questions were raised by the
counsel employed in their behalf, principally
in regard to individuality. Doubts were en-
tertained as 10 whether the persons in courts
were the persons indicted or the persons found
guilty. There is such sameness in the
appearance an names of these people that
it is next to impossible TO distinguish one
from another, and it may happen that the
innocent will be punished with the guilty.
The counsel employed by them intend to
make motion in arrest oijndgement.
"Forefah,ers' Day" was celebrated. by
the New Englnnders in San Francisco with
great enthusiasm, If we may judge from the
published reports.
1 The Herald. of the 23d says: si-i ~
Among the other evils growing ont of the
singuarly dry weather which has prevailed
this season is the recommends ent of the
FIRE epidemic that ragged so in the early ,iud
of the year. The frame buildings Of which
our inland towns are constructed are bccom-
ing as dry as finder, and likely 10 be swept
off by a confagration.
The same paper furnishes few items
from Oregon and Washington, which we
subjoin:
The Oregon Standard says that meetings
! Of the citizens along the Columbia river are
soon to be holden at different places, to
agtate the question of the Hudson Bay Com
pany's claims to large tracts of land in Ore
gon and Washington Territories, 10 throw
more light upon it, and TO devise ways and
means to legally protect the right of Amer.
can settlers upon the lands claimed by this
: company.
1t is well known that large number of
The dependents OF that company, imm ediately
on the passage of the land law, availed